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Artist: Longfellow
Canonical path: /longfellow/better-love
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Better Love
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Better Love
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I was empty, hoping you would fill me up, cut you open, took it all so ravenous, you're not enough
I was feeble, hollow-bodied as you led, like an actor, reading lines I'd never felt, I feel them now
If you need a better love, if you need one, I can understand it, I could never give enough,
If you need a better love you deserve one, I can comprehend it, I have given everything, now it's gone, now it’s gone
Turned to tinder, struck a match and came to flame, the meat market opened doors to new dead ends and I'm ashamed
If you need a better love, if you need one, I can understand it, I could never give enough.
If you need a better love you deserve one, I can comprehend it, I have given everything, now it's gone, now it’s gone
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, you provide and I remove
Lie for lie, truth for truth, I bring out the worst in you
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, you provide and I remove
Lie for lie, truth for truth, I bring out the worst in you
If you need a better love, if you need one, I can understand it, I could never give enough
If you need a better love you deserve one, I can comprehend it, I have given everything, now it's gone, now it’s gone
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