Men Who Drink

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The red in my cheeks should not fool you

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The red in my cheeks should not fool you.
I'm a mirror, a fine metal, a shard of crystal.
You get out what you put in.
Do not let my motions distract you,
I can open you up faster than you can find my door.
I can read you better than you could recite some nonsense to a woman who doesn't care.
You live in a cloud that's never known water.
And you sit next to a girl who was born in a thunderstorm.
And you drink, and drink, and drink.
When I notice you find it hard to stand,
Everything that was muddled becomes clear.
Because you're not you all the time.
But you like yourself when you're influenced.
And you like it when I am too.
Yet I'm almost never me, but almost always you.
I'm a mirror, a fine metal, a shard of crystal.
What you see in my eyes, I stole from yours.
What you like in me, I dug out of you.
So drink all you want, and touch all you want.
Feign innocence and keep telling me nonsense.
I'll listen for as long as you let me.
I'll listen until you love me.
The moment the cloud is full, I will not be around for the storm.

E.

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