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Wrestled to girl

I wrestled you down

Girl

Into woman

I grew your thoughts for you

Lifeless of the party

MonotoneĀ 

You vacuum expression

And drain me,

Exhausted

Stop

I gave you emotions

Give me energy

Any kind just give

Give and giveĀ 

I must drink

Always thirsty am I

But I drink for you

So whatā€™s this lull in your throat

Dip in your tone

Crack?Ā 

No

You ...

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Focal point

In life thereā€™s a lot to see
And thereā€™s a lot to desire
Thereā€™s people to meet
And things to acquire

Thereā€™re so many things
That we can choose
That we want to ourselves
And that we don't want to lose

But if stop to think
We can then realize
That we should narrow our dreams
To go for that one prize

We need to gather our strength
And we need a lot of determination
We need to pu...

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