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Just What Is (4C)
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On a Monday she told me, "this must end,
And maybe later on Paolo we could be friends"
I paused and took a second and said "that depends
On what you really want with me baby now what's your plan?"
Is it to keep me as support on the hard days
Cuz I'm not really up to that child's play
Its really getting hard to just keep sane around you
Its hard to
Refocus my mind when I found truth I gots to
Dip if that is what you want me to do
But I'm thinking of all the times we would
Go out to a view
And kicc it til like 3 am
You see I am
Reminiscing on things we had
Good things we have
I'm guessing you won't be too sad
Won't be too bad
To leave but memories stay stashed
I leaf through past
You came and went away too fast
Shame came at last
I scramble at the thought of that
I mean it
I mean with everything we had been through
Permeating my mental
Clarity is essential
To picc away at the central
Thesis of our time
Together in the sublime
Narrative of it all
Surpassing reason or rhyme
Hoping that we could find
The answer to asking "why?"
The instant we get to that
The quicker we can define
Just what it is that we want from another human
So before you look away
I think you better zoom in
And tell me...
Just what is
Holding you bacc from us
Tell me so I could make sense
Of why you concluded that it is too much
For you to open up your heart's door
When we're so close our souls touch
Still I wait for your answer
Until I turn grey and bleed rust
Just what is (4x)
I hope you don't mistake this for just another song
Another shot at making making progress or to push it along
But really i wanted to ask what it is making you pass go
Past forces beyond our control like you knew the passcode
To my heart
But then chose to forget
And I start
To feel the regret
Of telling you
Now I'm feelin upset
But i wont take bacc what had been said
Cuz it's important that you know that I owe you a debt
Of gratitude
Because of you I know that I could still feel
Because of you I know my heart ain't sealed and that it could still heal
And that it could potentially feel loved and be loving
Because of you I find myself in a mode of discovering me again
Now I know I can decipher when love is pretend
Or if it's real depending on the work I put in
And now i know the value of words and the value of trust
And the value of just doing me cuz i know its a must
Because of you and the fact that you came into my view
During a year that made me fear of meeting somebody new
During a time that I felt that everything's coming at me
You made me realize I still got strength to be happy
But tell me..
Just what is
Holding you bacc from us
Tell me so I could make sense
Of why you concluded that it is too much
For you to open up your heart's door
When we're so close our souls touch
Still I wait for your answer
Until I turn grey and bleed rust
Just what is (4x)
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