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Songs for love and hunger

Kept my feet in the air
Till a drop of blood was left
Oh dear forgive me for running away
When you were swimming in student loans
With twins crying in your home
Watch out when I mow the lawn
If you look away once
You'll see me long gone.
I ran away to find myself.

I was a virgin till I was 27 and that's when I first met you
I always felt so little when I looked at other men
Laying girls right and left when the thought struck them
I felt like I was tiny
I felt like I was nothing
Because I thought I was bigger
Because I thought I was better
Than all those other men
Once someone looked past all the things I couldn't give
And I knocked her up and suddenly got up to leave.

I know darling now you have a law degree
Our children are teenagers and they refuse to see me
I know about the tall man in glasses that you like
I know about our daughter crying every night
I know that our son likes men
I know you don't care because you're not like them
I know you like it when he brings a bottle of wine
And cooks dinner for you every Saturday night
I know my children love him
I know you do too
But you worry he will run away one day from you.

I am not happy that I left you
I am here to say that
I don't have the right but I want you to care
Sometimes when leeches get stuck on your skin
You rip them, they fall and they shake their little feet
Almost pitiful, how sad their lives must be
They hope your heart melts and
You stick them back on your skin
Some leeches don't drink blood
Some leeches write letters to you
Flapping their feet in the air for you
Hoping you'd stick them on your skin
Be wary of them, they once mowed your lawns too
Written by jishnu_9619
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