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The music played with a calming frequency.
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The speakers gently seeped the sound of ambient keyboards and light percussion,
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Creating a seductive soundtrack to our midnight drive through curtains of blackness.
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The windows were cold to the touch,
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Reflecting the icy conditions in our immediate extremity.
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Salt stains and fingerprints littered the glass,
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And streaks of melting snow cascaded down its length.
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The music pulsed louder, yet gentle,
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Like the far away squeal of a pot of boiling water.
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The skyline was glowing faintly with vague hints of an impending dawn.
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The car raced along a painfully straight stretch of road,
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And she hadn't so much as turned the steering wheel two degrees in the last twenty minutes
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Nor had we spoken.
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As we were, so perfect, so happy.
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They'll remember, only our smiles 'cause that's all they've seen.
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Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
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As we were, so perfect, so happy.
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[Spoken:]
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"Why are you doing this?" she spoke as if not expecting a response.
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Her voice penetrated the still air of our speechless drive,
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So suddenly that my heart had jumped.
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"I'm not doing anything," I said, but I didn't even believe that myself.
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"This is what's best, for me, for you, for us," or maybe just for me I thought,
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As a tear formed in the pit of her eye.
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The music poured through the speakers and we were losing ourselves in the cadence.
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She looked down momentarily and closed her eyes for a bit longer than a standard blink.
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Then she was crying. Then she was shouting. Then I was shouting,
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Now pouring confessions, having no answers, or solutions,
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We barely even knew the questions.
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As we were, so perfect, so happy.
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They'll remember, only our smiles 'cause that's all they've seen.
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Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
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As we were, so perfect, so happy.
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Don't put me underground, I was meant for a life somewhere else.
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Please, love, give me the wheel, before both of our hearts you
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Will steal tonight (will steal tonight).
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As we were, so perfect, so happy.
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They'll remember, only your smiles 'cause that's all they've seen.
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Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
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As we were, so perfect, so happy.
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Our cracking voices became part of the music.
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The car pressed on faster through the night. As our voices lowered,
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The cadence again overtook the air.
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Up ahead there was a curve approaching.
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She made no indications of slowing.
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The Approaching Curve
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Rise Against |