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Icarus

Icarus

I want you

I want you
Out of my head
Out of my heart
I want your memory
To leave me be
It never was so good
As I remember it
Why is it that
A premature end
Makes a martyr?

(2014)

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Preferido o celebrado por...
Marijose Marcos
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