I wish that I was beautiful for you
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I wish that I inspired tiny fireworks inside the way you do
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So delicately made
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A prayer left unprayed
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Before the morning sky fades
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Up to blue
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And I wish that I was beautiful for you
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I wish that somehow I could find a pill
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For a quick fix modern tonic that would change me with one swallow I would
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kill
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Watch folks line up to pay
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Stare at me all day
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But I'd turn them all away
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If that be thy will
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One tiny little innocuous pill
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But a wish is just a pin
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In a swimming pool of needles
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If for one night you need the room
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I wish to be your tomb
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You can lie in me
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Is it possible I've other things you need
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But to be worthy of a single page out of one of those magazines you read
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As glossy as a mirror
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But mirrors never lie
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They're difficult on the eye
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It's true
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And I wish that I was beautiful for you
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I dreamed that we were travelling on a bus
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Speeding along an unnamed plain towards somewhere and nowhere there was us
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Our hands lay useless in our laps
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Like beetles on their backs
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We came to a stretch of road where a fire
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Had burned the edges all along it looked as though the highway wore eyeliner
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You kissed me by surprise
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When I opened my eyes
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You'd turned into some old guy
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I screamed
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But don't forget of all these things I've only dreamed
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If for one night you need the room
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I will be your tomb
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You can lie in me
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I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You
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Darren Hanlon |