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lost your lies?

0You packed your last two bags.02br
00A taxi's 'round the bend.02br
00You used to 00laugh00 out loud,02br
00But you can't remember when.02br
01font00You lost your lies.02br
00It's like your moving out of time,02br
00And the whole word02br
00crumbles right beneath you.02font
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00How to understand the red text?02br
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00You lost you lies - You had no more excuses?02br
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00It's like your moving out of time - a time travel?02br
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00the whole world crumbles right beneath you - something happens when you travel through time?0-
  

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0You never know for sure with poetry. 02br 02br 00The first stanza is in rhymed couplets of three-foot iambic, while the red stanza neither rhymes nor scans. " Typo?

  • 0You never know for sure with poetry.
  • 02br 02br 00The first stanza is in rhymed couplets of three-foot iambic, while the red stanza neither rhymes nor scans.
  • " Typo?
  • word = world?
  • )02br 02br 00"Excuses" works for me," but I believe "time travel" is wrong.
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0You never know for sure with poetry. Not much help, I'm afraid.02br
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00The first stanza is in rhymed couplets of three-foot iambic, while the red stanza neither rhymes nor scans. Maybe that helps represent that the rhythm of your life has suddenly been disrupted.02br
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00Should be, 01i01u00"you're02u02i00 mov
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00You packed your last two bags. 02br
00A taxi's 'round the bend. 02br
00You used to laugh out loud, 02br
00But you can't remember when. 02br
00You lost your lies. 02br
00It's like your moving out of time, 02br
00And the whole word crumbles right beneath you. 02br
02br
00So, I might've made a

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