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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.

Leonard Cohen

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.

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