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If We Were Vampires   Jason Isbell

 
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 It's not the


 


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 long flowing dress that you're in. Or the light coming off of your skin. The fragile


 


 

 
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 heart you protected for so long. Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong. It's not your


 


 

 
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 hands, seraching slow in the dark. Or your nails leaving love's watermark. It's not the


 


 

 
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 way you talk me off the roof. Your questions like directions to the truth. It's


 


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 knowing that this can't go on forever. Likely one of ous will have to spend some days alone.


 


 

 
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 Maybe we'll get forty years together. But one day I'll be gone, or one day you'll be gone. If we were


 


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 vampires and death was a joke. We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke and


 


 

 
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 laugh at all the lovers and thier plans. I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand. Maybe


 


 

 
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 time running out is a gift. I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift.


 


 

 
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 Give you every second I can find and hop it isn't me who's left behind. It's


 


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 Maybe we'll get forty years together. But one day I'll be gone, or one day you'll be gone.


 


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 It's


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 knowing that this can't go on forever. Likely one of ous will have to spend some days alone.


 


 

 
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 Maybe we'll get forty years together. But one day I'll be gone, or one day you'll be


 


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