'Do I wanna know if this feeling flows both ways?
...
I don't know if you feel the same as I do,
but we could be together if you wanted to.
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Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall
Ever thought of calling darling?
Do you want me crawling back to you?'
~ Do I Wanna Know, Arctic Monkeys.
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If I could see you, I would run to you screaming, and you'll have to try and calm me down before I wake up half of the country.
But I can't run to you, there's a sea of muddy water between us, but still, I'll trap my screams in the spaces of messy letters.
I'm un-calmable.
The newspaper I write for agreed to print an article that I wrote on women's rights, mainly inspired by what you said in our letters Before.
It's half one in the morning, but I needed to write to you because my editor said that The Times wanted to reprint it. Just think about that, my worthless name printed in The Times.
That's why I'm un-calmable.
I promised that I would become something more than just the family scapegoat, have I proved myself yet?
J. McGough.
Because that is who I am now.
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A Lack of Understanding
Losowe'In 50 or 60 She'll leave me completely And one of us will coldly hold the others hand No metaphor for this that I can understand ... We'll be waiting in the shadows in the dead of night ... "Remember me daily." And all that will remain of us is pho...
