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3 2 1


Relax take a deep breath

count back from three two one and smile it will be over soon

but when your life only consists of threes and twos and ones it seems to flash by so quickly

every smile another memory of how you couldn't keep it in an alcoholics last drink until the next

because somehow one isn't enough you pine for the next and before you realize it your picking yourself up from the ground and screaming I'm not done yet

tomorrow seems like today and today seems like yesterday a depiction of what's going to happen next 

because if I count another three two I might not get to one

and the only thing holding you back from giving up is the fear that you might actually give up

that what you really want is the end and that scares you just a little too much

that you can't stop counting

three two smile for once I'll skip the one that shaky relief tears at your morals and tells you your going to hell for giving in that the only thing keeping you together was that one piece of fear without it there is no...

Three two one 

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