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  Six Steps

  

  By YoursTrulyTessa, jacksonville, FL

  The blankets are soft And the pills keep you asleep Until the number on the calendar is changed And it's a new day that you'll probably never see Salt is like a stone lion Guarding libraries and embassies There's so much to stuff in your brain A pen, an encyclopedia, an album, ...
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  Ribbons

  

  By YoursTrulyTessa, jacksonville, FL

  Take it easy baby We were never meant to go fast Engines roaring, wind blasting We weren't meant to experience the tear Of freedom Just walls Four of them to be exact My fingers are itching to sink in To rip into everyone And have the energy bursting out of the tips Like magic, like m...
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  Believe Me

  

  By YoursTrulyTessa, jacksonville, FL

  His hands are soft His smile is crooked Cliche and stupid and heroic He's the hero of her story And I'm always in the corner Five years and twenty five hundred sunsets And she'll still be drinking from her red cup on somebody's sofa Trying to ignore the knife in her chest ...
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  Right?

  

  By YoursTrulyTessa, jacksonville, FL

  The lines under your eyes are maps Blue and vivid and taking you somewhere They were supposed to take you somewhere They were supposed to take me somewhere But they never did Just hung like a welcome sign on a bridge That never really meant welcome at all The plane was supposed to take us To...
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  In Front Of You

  

  By YoursTrulyTessa, jacksonville, FL

  The doctors say you're okay But I know you're not They think they know more because They went to med school But I know the way you like your cereal How you like to eat it watching Nick at Nite The way the milk used to dribble down your chin And I'd call you a slob But really, I tho...