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Composed by：Alina Kanin/Jesse Strauss/Lauren Palmer

Produced by：Boots Riley

Tell me Reggie how is it you spell it

When you're in love with something so dead you can smell it?

Like two hearts preserved in maple syrup

And the boy that you love is off dying in Europe

Or Asia or something you forgot to ask

It's been seven long horrible years since you last

Told him you loved him but not what that meant

It's too much so it dies in text message unsent

You once told me about your happily ever after

Nobody else was in it but you said it with laughter

I'd be a writer you'd play your guitar

We'd both have each other like two summer stars

But I was alone when I moved to New York

And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore

And all my words seem to be able to do

Is paint all these desperate portraits of you

So you lived out your life how you thought you deserved it

And spent all your nights busy feeling deserted

Tell your girlfriend she means something more than she does

The last key to unlock the boy who never was

But you saw him you swear it he was there on the corner

Across from the house that now sits like a mourner

Empty of everything it ever loved

While torn-up drafts of letters rain down from above

I remember when you told me 'bout your happily ever after

Nobody else was in it but you said it with laughter

I'd be a writer you'd play your guitar

We'd both have each other like two summer stars

But I was alone when I moved to New York

And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore

And all my words seem to be able to do

Is paint all these desperate portraits of you

And will you be alone when you see him again?

Maybe alone is better than just being friends

Oh it can't be there's nothing as cold as this pain

Of a soul too big for one body to contain

It's so daunting a task this holding out hope

Chasing after the Argo in a little rowboat

There's so much that you want to be able to say

Before Charybdis pulls you away

Can we still have that ending you told me about?

Before we got older and filled up with doubt

'Cause I was holding back tears that night in your car

Now I'd give everything I have just to hear your guitar

I'd have died to have had you with me in New York

'Cause these upstate stars just ain't cutting it anymore

And all the river the trees and the streets seem to do

Is reflect back to me a picture of you

So what is the story you want them to tell?

Will you take off the mask though it wore you so well?

Will you go down this heartbreak town's tragic hero?

With me as your sidekick the lovesick Pierrot?

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