don't tell me
don’t tell me that you’re here (Elsee)
just drop by & let me drop where I am
don’t let me know how you prayed
at the walls of my ruins
don’t let me understand your vendetta
drop the peace pin from your heart
& kill me with tenderness
Where I lay.
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don’t let me know
how my world will crumble down
just raise a last toast before I go tonight
because you’ve won.
don’t want to hear the sound of me die
don’t want you to repeat
the promises you never kept, I’ve memorized them,
written on the crumbled paper walls of my skin
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don’t twist my death so slow
that time expires before me,
before the dying sun comes up,
before my organic coffin reaches a grave...
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I want to crash my final bed, a broken man
before you dance on my aborted memory
just for you to watch me cave in tonight
in my grave, on my nieve wishes
that wanted you to understand
I don’t want to understand
just drop by & let me drop where I am.
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Come unannounced, please
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