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blue

this is how i want you to love me

blue over blue over blue

wet til the paper buckles

dark so the owls come out

blue

and at the edge a mountain

that knows no country

respects no borders

don’t care when i forget

my own name

your love so jangles my blood

now the sunrise be sudden

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