The Cure – Strange Attraction (Guitar)

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It started with a dedication

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"lost in admiration - happy birthday - i'm forever yours - blossom"

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Faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies

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I smiled surprised at how when flickered through

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The wings flew by spelled out my name

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Six months went by the summer lost

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Obsessively the letters dropped into my life

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The same soft blood smooth flowing hand

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"please try to understand - i have to see you - have to feel you -

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Tell you all the ways i need you - yours forever in love"

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Strange attraction spreads its wings

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It varies but the smallest things

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You never know how anything will change

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Strange attraction spreads its wings

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And alters but the smallest things

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You never know how anything will fade

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The year grew old incessantly she wrote to me

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She'd started smoking poetry!

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I laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase

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She'd pulled me in...

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A christmas card in sepia

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Arranging when and where

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And how the two of us should meet...

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Her opening so well prepared

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A nervous smile

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I couldn't take my eyes from her

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"can i use some of your lipstick?"

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It was perfect so believable

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I couldn't help but feel that it was real

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And kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms

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Strange attraction spreads its wings

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It varies but the smallest things

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You never know how anything will change

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Strange attraction spreads its wings

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And alters but the smallest things

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You never know how anything will fade

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So alone into the cold new year without another word from her

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I wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring

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But weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came

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And with it my surprise but this time nothing was the same...

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"i'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination

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I was sure you'd be the one but i was wrong -

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It seems reality destroys our dreams - i won't forget you blossom"

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Faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes...

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Strange attraction spreads its wings

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It varies but the smallest things

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You never know how anything will change

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Strange attraction spreads its wings

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And alters but the smallest things

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You never know, you never know, and you never know...