I Love You Like

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I love you like a stranger who will never see your flaws
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I love you like the wager, I must win when all is lost
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I love you like the knife that cut through bone and sinew
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I love you like the scab, that’s the only proof of wound.

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I love you like the tears through which I’ve cried myself to sleep
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I love you like my fears somewhere hidden deep I keep.

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I love you like the consequence I know I must reap
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I love you like I love you like no one can but me.

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[Verse 2]

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I love you like the sailor who left home to tame the seas
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I love you like the writer naming things you cannot see
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I love you like the soldier bleeding by his flag he stood
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I love you like the carpenter carving beauty out of wood.

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I love you like the painter trying hard to frame the dawn
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I love you like the sinner claiming he was but a pawn.

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I love you like the saint who kept faith when all was gone
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I love you like I love you like you never ever saw.

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[Verse 3]

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I love you like the moment which once lived cannot come back
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I love you like that stolen glimpse that negates all that is lack
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I love you like the souvenir that’s worth more than it’s cost
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I love you like a memory you once thought was lost.

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I love you like the failures that haunt me in my dreams
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I love you like the incompetence in the mirror that I see

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I love you like the risk that suffocates that which could be
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I love you like I love you despite all that is me.

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