A Place
There's a place I know
Where my friends go
It's laid back and fun
Sit out in the sun
Have a laugh or two
Smoke, drink or chew
Food is really good
Though it's understood
We're there for the laughs
Looking for the gaffs
Keeping us all sane
Forget the mundane
And it gets us through
No matter how blue
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In Vain
Hair of the dog
Three toads on a log
I'd rather be a zebra in the rain
Snow on the ground
Shoes from lost and found
Sometimes it's better to walk with a cane
Losing your cool
Making me a fool
Anything to keep from going insane
Reach for brass rings
Keep an eye on things
But the awakening is all in vain
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It's Not For Me To Say
Does He hear my prayer?
As I call out every day
It's not for me to say
Is killing ever fair?
I can't judge this way
It's not for me to say
Are people basically good?
Although many say "nay"
It's not for me to say
What if the world understood?
We were not meant to stay
It's not for me to say
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Devil in The Blue Dress
She was masquerading as love
Wearing a thinly disguised smile
Cloaked in pure blue innocence
No shadow would she cast
Her spell was immediate
I reached to lift her veil
But she vanished in front of me
Leaving me to wonder, mouth agape
Was she real or in my mind
And in that moment I knew
It only mattered that I saw her
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Set Me Free
I knew that feeling once
Coursing through my veins
Since then it's all been fronts
I've never held the reigns
I'm ready to feel it again
I want to know I'm alive
Cause on a scale of one to ten
I'm somewhere ‘round a five
And then I saw your face
The way you looked at me
Moving with such grace
One touch you set me free
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Free
What shadow cast on this
From where you want to kiss
And seal our fate for good
Where I once firmly stood
Now it all seems unreal
A last chance to appeal
I know what I must do
Ensure we will be two
Not together as one
For me I know it's done
So say goodbye to me
As if you truly see
That it was meant to be
For me to set you free
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And There She Was
So there she was before me
Exactly like in my dreams
I saw her but couldn't see
For nothing is what it seems
Beauty speaks in many tongues
Though she never spoke aloud
She's the air inside my lungs
But my head is in a cloud
Then gliding with perfect grace
Nary a movement wasted
She left me here in my place
A love I never tasted
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For The First Time
That deep inner beauty which I thought only I could see
Now has somehow turned inside out, the canvas dazzling me
Revealing that most shocking and truly brilliant display
Sending me reeling and kneeling, taking my breath away
Causing me to ponder if I ever really saw you before
All I know is what I see makes me want you even more
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She Was
And there she was before me
Exactly like in my dreams
I saw her but couldn't see
For nothing is what is seems
Beauty speaks in many tongues
Though she never spoke aloud
She's the air inside my lungs
But my head is in a cloud
Then gliding with perfect grace
Nary a movement wasted
She left me here in my place
A love I never tasted
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Truth of Beauty
Fleeting beauty fades away
Constant truth is here to stay
But here she comes, oh her face
All I want is to embrace
Truth is nothing next to her
Til tomorrow as it were
For then we will truly see
All that beauty cannot be
Then here she comes to me, my bride
Pure beauty on the inside
Where it is and always was
Truth is only as truth does
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