i play bassoon

i was a girl who loved a military boy until he moved away

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in between the spaces, i fell in love with a multicolored novelist and a boy with a volcano in his mouth

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then a trombone player, who gave me my name

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little miss broke my heart, and so did her wolf eyed friends

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guitar player, broken bird, viola player on prom night

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a million birds in my back yard, grizzly bear

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little religious boy and a boy with a gun

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a girl who made me dive and fight my way from hell, and another who loved me on limit

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over all, 21 times and counting

and

you'll be twentytwo