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Maybe This Time


Maybe This Time

 

Shaking, breaking, falling down,

Look around when there’s no sound.

 

Worry, fear, and agony,

I see what he’ll do to me.

 

Hopelessness and panic grow,

Why won’t anybody know?

 

Deep inside I start to cry,

Maybe this time I will die.

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