Caroline lavelle
I'm so uncool that my fingers almost burn They've been known to strip the skin like the sun Come and touch me, brave heart, with your velvet skin You're playing games with me you'll never win You...
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Oh hark, the drums do beat my love I can no longer stay The bugle horns are sounding clear And I must march away We are ordered down to portsmouth And it's many's the weary mile To join the british...
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The space his leaving creates I have tried to fill with bodies that numbed my skin In them I had expected to find his opposites I found only forgeries He's away and I cannot breathe him in When I...
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Alas, you were like a grand and magnificent mansion And I, from the white summit of your roof In the light of the star-studded night Listened to the fearsome flow of the euphrates below I heard with...
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You talk to me With the language of the sea Of sand hot in the sun With the cries of night creatures I dimly understand... In your great escape In your great escape It's your chance to take Make your...
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when the ground drives like sand and you're losing it from both hands when you're flowering is denied, you're waiting for rain, waiting for rain when your staging has had its day just indulging in...
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Through bushes & through briars I lately took my way All for to hear the small birds sing one evening in may I overheard my own true love, her voice it was so clear: "long time I have...
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Young love is honed so sharp That the blade can snap, embedded in your heart And when you move you feel the ache Though the face that caused it fades But old love grows so long That the part above the...
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I'll meet you where the path meets the beach where the tree leans out over the water slender and tender olive green how can it survive the freeze? you smell of the trees you're the one of the forest...
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come to me while I'm sleeping and their wagging tongues will not find you my love all the while they dull our lighter souls fuse fly and dive my love so stamp the night so strong that I will remember...
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