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Tunes to Words

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Submitted by greenie on February 1, 2008 - 21:04.

I always have a tune
Stuck my head,
Forming the words
To things
I never said,
Framing the pictures
I haven't yet taken,
Listening to conversations,
I haven't yet had.

It's impossible
For me to comprehend
Why my words,
Come out in the end,
Not as sentences,
Lines or verse,
They come out
As whole notes,
Half beats,

Pause.

Crescendoes,
Drum beats,
Tamborines,

Pause.

Clarinets,
Cellos,
Violins...

Pause.

It's impossible to
Comprehend,
Not with words,
Words in my head,
Tunes,
Musical notes,
Lyrics to songs
I never wrote,
Rhymes that fall flat,
And bother my friends,
Tunes to words,
That I never said.

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