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As frail hinges pivot on a case's door, commemorative
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Souvenirs from places, containers changed with each occasion
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A cellophane-encased display of paper certificates
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To credit years of service, a tool of central enterprises
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The early hope for permanence, the words, the rings, consistency
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The social security, a miracle's high tragedy
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A thought mistaken for a memory, clear the dust from the smiles in boxes
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Pass the patterned wall recall their voices
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A local post will list your friends in order of disappearance
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Lawn scattered tins feed birds a portion baked for absent guests
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And the mass-edition icon god sent comfort, your salvation
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But who grants absolution for sins that never were committed?
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Tension makes a tangle of each thought becomes an inconvenient
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Sound, as it never penetrates as servile edges break and fade the
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Thought mistaken for a memory, a dress length, assassination
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A fractured family tie another christening, a christening
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A fractured family tie and another christening, christening, christening
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Thought mistaken for a memory, a dress length, assassination
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A fractured family tie another christening, a christening
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A fractured family tie and another christening
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Christening, christening, christening