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You’ll never hear this song

You’ll never see the movie in my head

But you infest my sleep and your figure creeps

Through my walls and hums above my bed.

I know you’re name and that you’re photogenic and tall

But I’ve never heard you talk

And there’s something about you that stabs me right through.

Chorus

It isn’t right

For me to paint your picture

Every night, but I do

(I can’t find sleep) And it feels so wrong

(I breathe too deep) To sing this song

(Into the sky) But maybe (as I) (walk and sing)somehow

you’ll hear me (you’ll hear a song) and hum along

You’ll hum long

You’ll hum long

And I’ve only seen you once

At your graduation

No cinematic glow or soft rock soundtrack

And I watched you move and breathe

And cry and it felt so wrong

REPEAT CHORUS

Maybe you’d be kidnapped by pirates

And they would take you to their hideout

As pirates often do

But I’d find the secret map

And I would vigilante-bush whack

Through the jungles of Peru

Just to save you and I’d take you north to Mexico,

Where you would tell me your life story on the steps of a Mayan temple,

Where we’d camp singing nonsense songs in 12 bars to the jaguars, until you’d

me, your eyes convincing, and I would kiss you like a hero in the half-light,

Dryer sheets and peach shampoo, the smell of palm leaves, I’d sleep

you, until the natives found us, but they would crown us king and queen,

And we could stay there, spend our daysthere, eating guava by the

and I could understand your views and you could fall in love with me.

SOLO [

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And while the silly human race talks to droids in outer-space, we grow

and laugh about this song

And between the jungle and the stars, you sing nonsense songs in 12 bars

me and in my sleep I hum along.

You’ll never hear this song

You’ll never see the movie in my head...