In the year of the Get You Alone I got you alone I showed you that I'd been drinking in a handful of words The lecture landed all kinds of places-
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places with vistas of buckthorn and tamarack. Can you measure remorse in invasive species? Will they hang their heads and swear not to grow back?
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All my love what have we become? Crippled
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by hope and pur suit thereof
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In the year of the Get You Alone I got you on a boat I did all my drinking at home, before we left the shore Don't look down now,
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but this water has a sinister motive Carving out my confidence and flooding my crumbling home
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All my love what have we become? Crippled by
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joy and pursuit thereof
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You've been sleeping with director's daughters and taking drugs I've never tried I drink at home most days and sometimes sleep with my wife I
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took a job in a kitchen- I belong in this city's withered arms cradled in her unset broken ulna, spangled by dishwater tears like silver bracelet charms
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but I don't love her like I love you I've been saving my money, gonna buy us a new car This city taught me a thing or two,
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like how to take a ride from anyone going far, far, far away from