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D O Y O U R E M E M B E R L O V E
Do you remember love?
before it beat your green eyes black and blue
made a blank shell of what was once the girl in you
Do you remember love?
Do you remember love?
Before you became just another piece of tail?
screwed and left before a morning’s Wail
Do you remember love?
Do you remember love
before you began to hate us men
rarely call or lean on them
Do you remember love?
Do you remember love
before you became so outrageously pretty
you attracted every idiot in the city
Do you remember love?
Do you remember love
I do
I remember love
Can you remember me?
Through clouded eyes can you still see
I remember love
I remember love
what it felt like to caress
with out purpose to undress
I remember love
I remember love
The taste of your mouth – wetness of kiss
God how long has it been since this
I remember love
I remember love
holding your body motionless in time
trying so desperate to make you mine
I remember love
I remember love
Girl I want to give you all
more than writing on a bathroom stall
I remember love
I remember love
your body I want to protect
not use selfishly nor neglect
I remember love
I remember love
Your mind I want to ravish
Thoughts of you will never vanish
I remember love
I remember love
You soul I must engage
make more then any woman of this age
I remember love
I remember love
These things no offense can be taken
When truth does finally awaken
I remember love
I remember love
Saving my body only for you
no one else could ever do
I remember love
I remember love
enduring the practice: marking time
Before you let me drink your wine
I remember love
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