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I lay down beside you:

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I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid,

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and I come in laughing play

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but, maybe, to be saved.


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Peer through the backcloth:

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I am a character in the play.

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The words I slur are pre-ordained,

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we know them anyway.


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Don't change your mind, don't be a fickle friend;

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don't change your mind, don't pretend

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to something false.


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Open the toy-box :

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You are Pandora, I am the World.

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If you cross the stream, you never can return;

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If you stay, you'll surely burn.


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Don't change your mind, don't come all orchid eyes;

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don't change your mind, don't disguise the fear you feel,

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it's real,      and you must

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guard your castle well,

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for I am the lone wolf and the boar at bay.

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Grant me your Pax, you know we only live today,

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and on, and on, and into

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    "So long"

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It takes so long to drown,

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it takes so very long to choke on the taste you'd spurned.

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If you cross the stream you never can return,

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If you stay you'll surely burn.

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If you stay you'll surely burn.

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If you stay you'll surely burn.