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All Of Me


Starting over

Because I have nowhere

Left to go

Down here

Everything goes so slow

You cut me so deep

And you buried me

Underneath

All the weight you carried

It wasn't enough to just love you

You had to break me too

 

I take it in

I take it under the skin

Because I still don't mind

And I don't mind

What I can't control or change

If I had my way

You'd be here with me

Today

Now

You'd save me tonight

But that's only 

If I had my way

But we both know

Nothings changed

 

You whisper my name

Like it's a prayer

But the love you feel for me

You treat as a curse

A burden

I wish 

You'd let me down

Because I'm tired of missing a ghost

A shadow

Hanging onto my soul

Dragging it down with you

 

All of me

Wants all of you

To just love me right

Like you did that first time

That first night

All of me

Lets you in

Time and time again

Only for you to break me

Time and time again

Because still

Even through it all

All of me

Wants all of you

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