Sappho

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This One Goes Out To All The Historians
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Who Really Know The True Value Of Friendship

It’s a Beautiful Thing


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I Used To Wish That I Were Dead
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Or At Least Somebody Else Instead
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All I Longed For Was Love
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How Lucky I Was
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When He Made a Funeral Pyre
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Of My Bed
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Oh Giver Of Pain
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I’d Sigh Her Name
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Come For Me Or Set My Body Aflame
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But I Didn’t Die
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a Lover Of Sky And Now I Know Why
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And It Had Nothing To Do With That xxxxxxx Guy

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After One Too Many Facts
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I Heard “Who Has Made You Cry Like That?”
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There Stood Aphrodite Where I Wept In The Grass
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With One Glimpse I Was Seduced
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Her Immortal Face Set My Limbs Loose
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Two Minds Became One, She’s Second To None
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Call Me Nothing New Because She Was The Sun


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My Heart Is Made Of Fear
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I Said “Where’ve You Been All Of These Years?”
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She Sat, Said “I’m Here Now
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My Family Just Moved To Town”
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“Oh, Cool” I Had It Wrong
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She Was Never a Part Of Any Pantheon
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So At The Dawn Of My New World
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Sat Not An Old God But The New Girl
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Overcome, So Undone

I Was Longing For a Girl


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We Became My Favorite Craft
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She Taught Me Love And This And That
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“Your Heart Is Made Of Song”
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I’d Lie Still, She’d Hum Along
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I Desired, Oh I Craved
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Ambrosia Kisses Made Me Brave
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When The Moon And I Set She Anointed My Neck
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I Dropped To My Knees As I Shook My Chest


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Your Wants Are My Needs

Make It Ichor I Bleed
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I Profess We Lack But Little Deaths
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You’re My Ally In Love

As Below So above
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Eros Stood Looking Impressed

And Then We Did what He Does Best

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That Day She Made My Bedroom Holy
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Satisfied My Passions Slowly
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Flowers Were In Her Hair
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Thought I Dreamt That She Was There
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I Asked “Why’re Ya Tryna Kill Me?”
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She Laughed And Called Me Silly
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“You’re Not Gonna Die But Gee,
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You’re Pretty When You Cry”


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Thought She Said She Loved Me
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But It Sounded Kinda Odd
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She Said “Somebody Will Remember Us
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Even After We’re Gone”
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With One More Stroke Of Luck

Sweet Mother Of xxxx

I Became a God