Teach Me To Bear You

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You wrote your name on a paper and gave it to me;
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for years in my pocket where no-one could see.
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How can I change the way that I felt?
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I slipped the paper in the pocket of somebody else.
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Won't you teach me to bear you?


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Someone with matches;
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someone with bronze;
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someone with blue eyes to gaze upon.
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Your name, your whole story, your whole life to see.
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The story you had given to me
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Won't you teach me to bear you?


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I want to read you a life of parties and wisdom, of care and explosions and wild summer 
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eves...
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but my hands are empty, and my throat cracked and drawn,
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because I gave away the name you gave to me. ……
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Yes I sang away the name you gave to me.


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