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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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Marijose Marcos
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Right Thinking

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I have been proud

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I want to hate you

I want to hate you I want to blame you For all the pain In my heart I want to hate you
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Unrequited

If anyone but you Had told me not to talk to you They would never have succeeded I let you go Because you asked me to.
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Constancy

This is where I am Though I fail to treasure it I am still right here
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better than you

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