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Goodnight, sleep well
sherains

We had many things in common,
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least of which
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was our capacity for pain
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and our frequent lack
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of sleep.
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I stayed up with you
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long before I knew you.
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While you were climbing rooftops
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I was driving through summer nights
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and perhaps
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our desperate moments crossed paths;
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shook hands,
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winking at what we would know.
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The world got colder
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and though two people
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can stay warm better than one
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I found myself freezing
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more often than I should have.
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I sleep better
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these new summer nights.
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But when the air
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is hot and still,
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I free myself
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from my tangled sheets
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and peer out the window,
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wondering whose rooftop
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you're climbing
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tonight.
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08/18/08

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