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Making you wish we never met
Won't solve a goddamn thing I know
I've got this lump in my throat
It's tearing me up like drain-o

Inhale you like gasoline
Feel my strength dissipating
Hold you inside of me
Until I am suffocating

And it beats waving a handkerchief
Goodbye, goodbye
To a fuzzy face on a moving ship
New Guy, new guy

These ties of ours, they're supposed to blind me
To paper kites and bedposts, not mistakes I left behind me
There's nothing right now as tenuous as my kite string
Nothing as precarioius as looking down on you when I am flying

And it beats waving a handkerchief
Goodbye, goodbye
To a fuzzy face on a moving ship
New Guy, new guy

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punkpirate On May 31, 2006

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2006-05-31 09:29:01

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