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29 lines
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date: 2022-11-07T09:21:21.000+00:00
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hero_image: "piano.jpg"
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title: Thank you for the piano lessons
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author: Sally Émerzian
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You're downstairs and you can't play,
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But you're playing "Strangers In The Night".
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For me, it's a school night.
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Tomorrow is another day on the front line
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Another bloody battle against the world you put me in, then shielded me from.
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The awkward notes are far apart
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Guesses echoing in the hallway
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Against bare walls and marble floors
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Like lonely people.
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Tonight if I sleep early, tomorrow if I listen carefully,
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I might learn all the things you'd have liked to, for you, for me, for me... for you
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The burden's heavy on my little heart.
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It's counting time, breaking apart
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With every new skill you gift me with your time, with my time
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Now it's bedtime already but hey, at at least I hear you.
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And now I'm your age already but I still see you,
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Under that spotlight, behind the piano, below the staircase
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The outline of your kind shoulders cast in a mahogany glow
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One well-meaning hand figuring out the next note
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Til I grow up to be all the things you'd guessed for me.
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All those great things that should have made it all worth it
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For all the strangers in the night. |