Lindsay King

so you take away the pain
to make life less blinding
a few shots of vodka
followed by a long island iced tea
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these days just don't
quite feel complete
will the touch of your hand
be relieving,
...

i can never go back
to what we once were
a picture in time,
many pictures from the past
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it seems these words have lost their meanings
i'm crying
and begging
and kicking
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a year ago
it was all a year ago
when you kissed me badly
like i was the first girl
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Everything seems to stop
When you walk on by
My friend says you're cocky
But I know that you're not
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Can you be bought, I ask
For what price can you be bought?
Throw out your convictions
And mingle with the otherside
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i saw the pictures
from the wedding
-not yours,
but might as well have been
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for every girl who throws up in the toilet
and every one who can't look in the mirror
do you feel a tinge of regret?
for every word you used to say
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there's something to be said
about what cannot be said
i've always spoken
when i should have kept silent
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This is what suicide feels like
With the pills in my body and
A broken heart
I know why he had to get away
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He promised me LA
He'd make me-
And I loved it,
Every word and every sound
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we danced until the moonlight died,
oh wait, that was only in my mind
instead we sat together in the cold silence
every night and every day,
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The sun is beating down on me
Has been for the past 6 months
I think about what it has brought
Through the scorching sun and pain
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it seems so pointless to get up
to get up just to remember how empty this all is
you erased me
you replaced me
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I had been with such pond scum before
That it’s no wonder
That a mossy rock looked so good
Surfacing to the shore
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it seems so pointless to get up
to get up just to remember how empty this all is
you erased me
you replaced me
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i'm hiding a picture of you
in my purse behind my wallet and cell
it means nothing now
so it means everything somehow
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dont act like
its nothing
stop thinking
i need to
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if you wanted to leave me for dead,
then don't come around to see if I made it out alive
if you wanted me out of your life,
then don't do what you can
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