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  • Dear Patty Griffin,
    thank you for growing up with me.

    All the girls in the Paris night
    All the girls in the pale moonlight
    All the girls with the shopping bags
    All the girls with the washing rags

    All the girls on the telephone
    All the girls standing all alone
    All the girls sitting on the wire
    One by one fly into the fire

    Be careful how you bend me
    Be careful where you send me
    Careful how you end me
    Be careful with me

    All the girls standing by your beds
    All the girls standing on their heads
    All the girls with the broken arms
    All the girls with the deadly charms

    All the girls in the restaurant
    Pretending to be nonchalant
    Funny girls on the TV shows
    Close your eyes and they turn to snow

    Be careful how you bend me
    Be careful where you send me
    Careful how you end me
    Be careful with me

    All the girls working overtime
    Telling you everything is fine
    All the girls in the beauty shops
    Girls' tongues catching the raindrops

    All the girls that you'll never see
    Forever a mystery
    All the girls with their secret ways
    All the girls who have gone astray

    Be careful how you bend me
    Be careful where you send me
    Careful how you end me
    Be careful with me.






    P.S; I just realized I posted this somewhere at the end of my eighth grade year too.  Aw. ♥


    So many things that I had before
    That don't matter to me now.
    Tonight I cry for the love that I've lost
    And the love I've never found.
    When the last bird falls,
    And the last siren sounds,
    Someone will say what's been said before:
    "It's only love we were looking for."

    But if you break down,
    I'll drive out and find you.
    If you forget my love
    I'll try to remind you
    & stay by you
    when it don't come easy.



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