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I thought I'd float
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How far does my life reach
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And where does the night begin?
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The first stanza has five lines
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Rilke inserts an orphan
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That has no rhyme reference
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I thought I'd float
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The third middle line floats
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I could even grasp the stars
Hold them inside, so vast
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My heart seems so huge; how gladly
Would it let them go again
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Or should we rather say
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Of Rilke's female part
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There you go, lucky again
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Did they rethink it for me again?
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The others are all coming too
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What are you doing the whole time?
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All this isn't good for you
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Hey Hannah, you okay?
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I know every breath you take
Nothing about you is strange
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Who knows your life better
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Back then on those hot summer days
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We let ourselves drift off the jetty
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And we swore
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What would've become of us
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The kids from the far north
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The best friends, as long as I can remember
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The years have passed
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I lied to myself more and more
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Because I never found the right words
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Because I just see more in us
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Because I see more in both of us
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Because I just see more in us
You had a chick like that
But didn't deserve her at all
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We both lived through so much
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And meet on Fridays for dinner
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You're still the girl from back then
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With freckles on your face
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You talk about big adventures
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And laugh a lot when you speak
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You really can't stand me at all
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You always come when I'm not around
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I just like being alone with him
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It's now more than twenty months
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You don't wanna do that
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The doctors said from the start
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'The brain damage is irreparable.'
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I know he's still there
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He won't come back
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Hannah, what happened back then
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It's not your fault
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What would've become of us
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The kids from the far north
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The best friends, as long as I can remember
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The years have passed
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And I bent myself more and more
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Because I never found the right words
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Because I just see more in us
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Because I see more in both of us
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Because I just see more in us
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I woke so softly
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I thought I'd float
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How far does my life reach
And where does the night begin?