The Lines About A Line Are Thee Only Lie In These 264 Lines

The Lines About A Line Are Thee Only Lie In These 264 Lines

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Primative minds

__go flyin' high

Mashed up potatoes

__go wandering off

And I think I could

__be eatin' some of those

____ya know?

"What to" think

__when you're just plain crazy?

How to feel

__when your heart is a loan

____oh

______oh no

________oh

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You tell me it's over

I don't understand

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It's paradise

__I always wanted to step in

Know I should

__always just walk away from it

But I crown my own

__self with my tears

____here, though

I line up all the blow

__just to snort up my nostrils

Climbing to the top

__of the bottom of nothin'

____I know

______yeah

________I know

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You tell me it's over

I don't understand

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Cryin' on a fence

__like a giant monster

I keep forgetting

__to just not bother

The past is the past

__and you made us like that

____for forever

Trapped to a wheel

__I attempt to self peel

Runnin' 'round, my attention span

__is so damned unreal

____what's

______the deal

________here?

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You tell me it's over

I don't understand

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Packin' my thoughts

__and loading them in a rifle

Pointing it at my portable

__refrigerator

Guess I shoulda' thought twice

__before I got bold

____oh no

Not nice to tell me

I'm already old though

But, Hell, it gets

__easier to freak

____out

______on you

________now

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You tell me it's over

I don't understand

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Miles and miles

__nowhere to go

unheard of meanings

__to a pocket nose

Should I climb out

__of the would works

____for ya?

Watch as the memories

__only prove to me

That you were never mine

__oh, that's why I'm blind

____I don't

______see

________them, yeah

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You tell me it's over

I don't understand

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Oceans and oceans

__of a fogged mind

Only asking the world

__why you can't be mine

And I just get no answers

__lately

____yeah

Rhyme after rhyme

__people seem to ignoring it

Ratings just drop

__to the floor and I see no

____ending

______To

________it, yo

Why?

Why is it time?

ettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You tell me it's over

I don't understand

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Not gonna quit

__with these obsessive fits

Not gona stand

__'til I'm taken by the hand

Gonna have to wait

__in line for my turn

____to earn

But what's the use of findin'

__some one new?

What's the point of love

__if it ain't from you

____who

______knows me

________well?

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You tell me it's over

I don't understand

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Years are gonna come

__and rain is gonna fall

Not falling in love

__is gonna be so hard

The rain reminds me

__that there was a you

____such doom

To have gotten close

__just to lose

To have to let go

__and let you loose

____like

______a cooked

________goose

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You told me it's over

I don't understand

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Watching me line up

__all my thoughts

Knocking them down

__all one by one

Never realizing

__why they are even

____thought up

They must be of you

__'cause I just forget

Don't wanna have you in my head

__again, just yet, 'cause

____what

______is a

________dream?

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You told me it's over

I don't understand

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And why the Hell am I sayin'

__that "I don't understand"

When I've heard you explain

__why I can't be your man?

I comprehend the break up

__so well that the truth is just stuck

____in my mind

Crawling back to you

__is not something I will do

You forced me out

__to never turn around

____unlike

______a

________circle

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You told me it's over

I don't understand

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What is wrong with me?

__why can't I get it thru my head?

Is it just somethin'

__I keep on forgettin'?

When the words you've cried

__crawled into my ears

____I hear

Wouldn't wanna not hear

__what you mean so dearly

No matter of the fact

__that it opposes my offer to take

____back

______what I've

________said

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You told me it's over

I don't understand

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Last lines were meant

__to change the reader's position

But not a thing I say

__can make you change your mind here

You just couldn't undo

__what you've done

____leaving me

But that's what you think

__I don't agree with it

Still, I don't got forever

__to wait for you to do it

____'cause

______you just

________won't

Why?

Why is it time?

'Twas just gettin' started

'Tweren't prepared to part

Why?

Why aren't you mine?

You told me it's over

I don't understand

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12-29-'10 #2

D. L. Cannon