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Knife I asked for

Oh yes, the knife I asked for

     sliced down my face

                                        till I bleed into my eyes

                                                                             cloudy & hazed with read

 

I crumple

               your arrogance mean spirited

                     and dark

You stab out, blindly, in darkness of denial

                                                                  but you don't miss

 

You lied to everyone, about me

    hid me

          under a cloak in the woods, no one knew

                I thought so romanitc, 

                        when you came for me we'd have such tales we would tell

got cold, lost in the dark is actually alone

 

Singing Otherwise

so easy to disavow me now, like a haughty butler might do

Otherwise Singing

            you don't want me

                                            to hold 

                                                        you

                                            to nothing you say

public is for the public, when privates' full

who need you convince quite so convincingly oh cruel indiscreet one

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