Key: C
Introduction:
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dear dar(lin') your mom (my friend) left a message
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on my machine she was frantic saying you
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were talking crazy
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that you wanted to do away with yourself I guess she
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thought i'd be a perfect resort because we've had this inexplicable
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connection since our youth and yes they're in shock they
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are panicked you and your chronic them and their drAba
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you this embarrassment us in the middle of this delusion
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if we were our bodies
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if we were our futures
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if we were our defenses i'd be joining you
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if we were our culture
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if we were our leaders
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if we were our denials i'd be joining you
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I remember vividly a day years ago we were camping you knew more
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than you thought you should know you said "I don't want ever to be
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brainwashed" and you were mindboggling you were intense you were
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uncomfortable in your own skin you were thirsty but mostly you were
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beautiful
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if we were our nametags
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if we were our rejections
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if we were our outcomes i'd be joining you
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if we were our indignities
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if we were our successes
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if we were our emotions i'd be joining you
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you and i we're like four year olds we want
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to know why and how come about everything we
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want to reveal ourselves at will and speak
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out minds and never talk small and be intuitive
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and question mightily and find god my tortured
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beacon we need to find like-minded companions
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if we were their condemnations
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if we were their projections
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if we were our paranoias i'd be joining you
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if we were our incomes
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if we were our obsessions
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if we were our afflictions i'd be joining you
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we need reflection we need a really good memory feel free to call me a
little more often