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I can take your pictures off my wall.  Tell myself that I don't care at all.  I can make 

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believe I'm better off without you.  I can build a wall.  I can fool myself, but that won't 

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help at all.  You see the problem is deep within my heart and the memory is to blame and 

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I won't really be the same as long as you're there.  Tore up all your letters I had saved.  

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As if that would make my loneliness go away.  And I spent the day picking up the little 

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pieces just to read again all about the way you loved me way back when.  You see the  

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problem is deep within my heart and the memory is to blame and I won't really be the 

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same as long as you're there.  I'm light and gay with friends who come to call.  Try to 

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hold my tears that were meant to fall.  Then late at night your face appears before me like 

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a cannonball and I know that I've learned nothing after all.  You see the problem is deep 

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within my heart and the memory is to blame and I won't really be the same as long as 

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you're there.