The Graveyard Near The House

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The other day, when we were walking by the graveyard near the house,
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You asked me if I thought we would ever die.
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And if life and love both fade so predictably,
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We've made ourselves a kind of predictable life.

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And so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces,
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In some dark and lonely blood under a bow.
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We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half turned to dust,
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In tattered clothes, but we probably look just as silly now.

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Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence.
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I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next,
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Or how to be.
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But you have no idea about me, do you?

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And it left me to wonder if people will ever know each other
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By just stumbling around like strangers in the dark.
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'Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me,
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I must seem strange to you.
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We're like two actors playing our parts.

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Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did. 
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Here's the part where I get so mad,
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I tell you I can't forget the past.
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You get so quiet now, and you seem, somehow,
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Like a lost and lonely child.
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And you just hope that the moment won't last.

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Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence.
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I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next,
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Or how to be.
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But you have no idea about me.
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You have no idea about me, do you?

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So there's always a way around.
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There's something tying our feet to the ground,
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A moment passed, we hate how it sounds.

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And it seems a little less profound,
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Like we're all going the same way down.
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Yeah we're all going the same way down,
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I'm just trying to write it all down.

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'Cause I write songs, and you write letters,
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We are tied like two, in tethers.
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And we talk and read, and laugh and sleep, at night in bed, together.
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And you wake in tears sometimes,
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I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes.
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They say "Darling, will you be kind?
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Will you be a good man, and stay behind if I get old?"
               
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And then the letters all pass through my head,
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With the words that I was told,
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About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold.
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I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will.

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And I'll defy everyone and love you still,
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I will carry you with me up every hill.
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And if you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky,
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I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie.

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It may be better to move on, and to let life just carry on,
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And I may be wrong.
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But still, I'll try.

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'Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die,
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Yeah, It's better to love whether you win or lose or die.
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It's better to love, and I will love you 'til I die.