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The spirit was gone from her body
Forever and had always been inside that shell
Had always been intertwined
And now were disintwined
It's hard to understand
Oh...

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coow On Oct 12, 2010

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by chrisflew

15y ago

I pick it up slightly differently, though I'm not sure if there's an official lyric from the single/album...

"The spirit was gone from her body Forever had always been inside That shell had always been intertwined And now we're disentwinted

It's hard to understand"

Beautiful song anyways.

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