She says, “I'm too tall”
Because she thinks she is too big to be held
She says, “I hate my voice”
Because she can only hear herself in recordings
She says, “I don’t know what I'm doing”
Because she can’t see past her shortcomings

But what she doesn't know is that with her head up to my chin she is the perfect size to fall into my arms and be wrapped in an embrace bigger than her insecurities
Or that the low, velvet tone of her voice that dances from her lips could never be captured by a video
Or that her imperfections cower in the face of her all her strengths

And she doesn't know
That I do.

hey
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we haven’t talked in a while
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weeks
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maybe even months, actually
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truth is, i can’t remember the last time we talked
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and, wow this going to sound crazy, but
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i saved our last conversation. i keep reading over it, trying to figure out where i went wrong
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but i can never find it
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i can never find that one place where i ******* up, where i said something wrong, where i did something to tear us apart, or make you hate me.
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and it *****, it really does.
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matter of fact, “*****” isn’t a strong enough word to describe how awful it is
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or how awful i feel
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hurt
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betrayed
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used
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and do you want to know what the worst part is?
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the worst part, aside from the fact that i can’t figure out where i went wrong, is that, even after all of this
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i still love you
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i have loved you, i love you now, and i’m pretty **** sure i will love you in the future.
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and i guess that’s half of what i came here to say.
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but it’s obvious that you don’t feel the same.
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and so i suppose that the other half of what i came here to say
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is goodbye.
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and though i’m sure that all your love for me has faded
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and that my name hasn’t slipped off your ******* long time
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all i ask of you is one thing
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just don’t forget me.
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If I struggle with the answer
For the price of these beers,
Please let me get on by,
For it’s a wonder I’m still here.

We’re swarming through headlights
As we make our way through town,
The women fix their heels and lipstick,
Whilst the streets fill up with sound.

And I can’t think about tomorrow
Over the loudness of my shirt,
An imitation of new Hawaii:
Throw a rainbow over hurt.

Yet still I say ‘thank you’
As you throw up in my face,
Then I’ll pour you another *****;
Everything can be replaced.

you told her she was pretty,
you knew she has a troubled soul

you told her you loved her,
when you knew she had fallen

you left her dead in the night,
when you knew you were her everything

you broke her heart into more pieces than she could count and now she doesn't say a word