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20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
I am learning to abandon the World
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I am abandon World
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Before it can abandon me.
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Before It can Me
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Already i have given up on the moon
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Already given up moon
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And snow, Closing my shades
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And Snow Closing Shades
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Against the claims of white
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against claims white
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And the world has taken
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And the taken
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My father, my friends
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My friends
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I have given up on melodic lines of hills,
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I have melodic hills
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moving to a flat tuneless landscape
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moving flat landscape
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and every night i give my body up
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and every body up
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limb by limb working upwards
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limb upwards
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across bone, towards the heart
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across the heart
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but morning comes with small reprieves of coffee and birdsong
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but morning coffee and birdsong
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a tree outside the window
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a tree window
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which was simply shadow moments ago
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which was shadow ago
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takes back its branches twig
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takes back twig
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by leafy twig
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by twig
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and as i take my body back
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and as take back
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the sun lays its warm muzzle on my lap
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the sun warm muzzle lap
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as if to make amends
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as if amends
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