Hello Forever - Cold air dying on my face, it's turning her nose red. I wrap my fingers around hers as she hangs her head. Satin pearls in her eyes absorb the moonlight. Their solace melts my frozen breath away. She says You don't know happiness until you know despair, remembering your foolishness when you thought life was fair. It's a beautiful new world, but you still can't breathe the air. As I lace my fingers through the strands of her hair, running them softly, I trace the cracks of her skull. The glue seems to weaken and everything holding her together is failing. Our irises are clouded. I let her breath dance with mine. Flakes of faith melt on her lips, and bleed down my spine. Tears of ice falling down shatter on the ground. The piercing sound cuts right through my veins. I say You don't know despair until you've seen her sorry eyes, and her hair against your cheek makes you believe all of her lies, and hearing her abuse herself makes you want to die. As I gaze for miles through her April-green eyes, losing faith in everything I know, in the life of a heartbeat she takes a piece of me that I will never get back. You don't know her until you've held her in your palm and you're so hopelessly serene you think there must be something wrong, when she's every thought inside your head, and every word in every song. As I hold my breath hoping she'll let hers go, mourning the death of a life we'll never know, you're no more than a stranger because if you don't know her, you sure as Hell don't know me you don't know me if you don't know her you don't know me but I don't know her anymore.
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