He makes you lose footing
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Your head and pedals, your stranger is a stone in
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the pond of passing days
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From his perfectly shaped lips
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flow bookish accents
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Makes you think he'd do everything, or almost, better than
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Fresh like a new high school
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Like the mirror of first times
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Your stranger spotted you in the
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color you chose, in the lightest fabrics
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in your nymphet uniform
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the one that a few years ago would've made him capsize
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Flowers filling the barrel
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Your stranger reinvents you in the halogen of his desire
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He's the man of superlatives
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not the guy for month-ends
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Your stranger doesn't talk numbers or sports on Sunday night
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So, smile in your eyes, tears on your lips
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You give him a piece of you, you scrap your boyfriend's perks
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But at night, the suits
find their worn-out hangers again
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and the taste of bitterness from
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cheap light in his bad habits
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You watch your coast guard
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only then you realize your boyfriend is the stranger