and II said "I've been there too a few times"
She tells him that she has done the same thing and that she only wants to be with him.
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He says "What you've heard is true but ICan't stop thinking about you"
He doesn't lie to her he tells her the truth an tells her that he has seen other girls but he only really wants her.
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I say "I've heard that you've been out and about with some other girl, some other girl"
She's not asking him anymore about how why he hasn't been in contact with her makes her think or she's heard that he has been seeing other girls and wants to know if its true or not.
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Takes me home, lights are off he's taking off his coat (Hm yeah)
He's taking her back home the way he picked her up which is everything is dark, because probably who ever she lives with she doesn't want them to know about them.
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So it goes, he can't keep his wild eyes on the road
It seems like he's not that responsible driver if he can't keep his eyes on the road, however i feel like there's a different meaning behind this line which i'm still not sure about.
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And I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt
It seems like they are two different people, she is a good girl and he is more of a rebel.
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You've got that long hair slick back, white t-shirt
It seems like she really likes his style and probably it reminds her of James Dean.
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'Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style
This whole never going out of style thing could mean that even though that the fight all the time they'll still always be there for each other, maybe she's trying to say that their kind of toxic but they still love each and will be together.
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And when we go crashing down, we come back every time
Every time that they fight or the argue they always say that its over but somehow they always mange t get back to together every time, and they already know that.
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And I got that red lip, classic thing that you like
It seems that they might both like each other for their appearances, so maybe that why they keep going back to each other because they are very attracted to each because of how they look.
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You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye
She probably is a fan of the actor James Dean and her lover seems to remind her of him, especially his eyes.
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Watch it go round and round each time
She probably has been through this multiple times or she has had to deal with his type of behavior multiple times because she says round and round each time. Or this could mean that either he or she have gone back to each after arguing and getting into fights.
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Know exactly where it leads but I
Now this line makes me feel even more that she has already been through this type of thing before. Perhaps she has gone through this with this same person or maybe with somebody else.
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And I should just tell you to leave 'cause I
She must be upset with him because he hasn't contacted with her in a long time, so she's probably mad with him and doesn't want to even look at him.
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It's been a while since I have even heard from you
I wonder who this person is and what their role is in her life, because she says she hasn't heard from them in a while. I wonder why they stopped being in contact, maybe they got into a fight or they just were distanced.
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Long drive, could end in burning flames or paradiseFade into view, oh,
Either their relationship at the moment or in the future could be good or end badly. Maybe she has already been through something like this before.
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Midnight, you come and pick me up, no headlights
Well they're probably sneaking out, because why would he pick her up at midnight and then he doesn't have his headlights on so they just not want to be see. Maybe her parents don't want her seeing him or maybe they just can't be together.
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to gather sweet crocuses and jonquilsfor you.
She wants to collect flowers for her love so that he won't be sad anymore.
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I’ve parked my horsein this gray, gray sunrise
Maybe the gray sunrise has something to do with her love being sad, or shows us that he is sad about something.
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My darling, please, don’t be sad.
She wishes for her love not to be sad, she wants him to be happy.
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a stroll through the Tenderloinwith the man I love.
She'll take a stroll through a nice neighborhood with someone that she cares about.
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persimmons from Chinatown,
It's part of what the author thinks of as one of those nice days.
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Oh, the small delectables of day:
The great and wonderful things that happen each day.
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we could’ve had everything:the talent, the courage, the wherewithal
They could've had been able to have money and talent.
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you cry, “Mei Ling, Mei Ling, once
They wish to be in Mei Ling.
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A quick fix in your veins; a white rush in my mind
This could mean that moving to another country or place could change you or change your normal ways of life.
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it suspends where no prophet can touch.
Not even someone like a prophet can be able to touch this place.
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Hong Kong, San Francisco, San Jose,the path through the “Golden Mountains”is a three-tiered freeway.
When your an immigrant you have to travel through lots of places that are very long to get to where you wanna go.
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Where is your birthplace,the Yangtze, the Pearl?
She is trying to think of where the tree came from.
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Where is the Yellow Emperor who nurtured you?
The person who had taken care of the tree is no longer to be found.
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One pellicle, another, fallson the land of your displacement.
The people are like just getting way from where they were living because everything is falling apart.
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your gentle bark can’t protect you now
I think that the city is getting more polluted and the tree just can't take it anymore so it's getting weaker. It can't keep helping the city with it's pollution.
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city’s oxygen, small men’s shadow,
I think that the tree could be helping the city get rid if all the bad stuff and all the garbage and pollution. The city is probably really bad.
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Gingko, vomit-eater of the metropolis,
The Gingko is a tree that is able to eat garbage, so maybe it eats all the bad stuff from the city. Like pollution and all the garbage that is in the city.
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So, please,don’t fall as civilizations fallin the comfort of night.
Maybe the speaker means that they do not wish for the apartment to be teared down or fall apart just like the way we people tend to fall apart.
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You arrange the amenitiesand we pay the rent.
Maybe the person who owns the apartment is the one who gives them all these nice things for them home and all they have to do is just pay the rent. Or maybe they are paying rent for it so they do not tear it down.
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squats in the sinking earthlike a thin-hipped dowager
It must be an old apartment that it reminds the person of an old lady, but who is strong.
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refuses to bend in the wind
It's kind of comparing her house to bamboo because bamboo is very strong so her house must be very sturdy.
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Condominium, stiff bamboo,
It's telling us about her apartment and how it was very strong like bamboo.
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Burnin' it downSomeday when you leave meI bet these memoriesFollow you around
He may try to get rid of everything that reminds him of her but no matter if he gets rid of everything he'll still have all the memories of them together which will never leave him.
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You'll see me in hindsightTangled up with you all night
I'm not sure exactly but I feel like she's trying to tell him that no matter what that he's always gonna see her.
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And when we've had our very last kissMy last request is
After their final kiss she just wants him to do one thing which is just to remember her.
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Nothing lasts forever but this is getting good now
She knows that nothing last forever but she really likes being with him and whats going on on their relationship.
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His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my roomAnd his voice is a familiar sound
They seem to be very close and she really likes the sound of his voice, it almost reminds her of something.
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I said, "No one has to know what we do"
It seems like she's trying to hide what they are doing and doesn't want anyone else to know.
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Say you'll see me againEven if it's just in your wildest dreams, ah-ha
She wants him to tell her that he will come and see her, and if he can't see her in person than to jut think about her or maybe even dream about her. But as long as he remembers and see's her.
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Staring at the sunset, babeRed lips and rosy cheeks
She wants him to remember her looking nice and just looking at the sun. I feel like she may want him to remember her like that because maybe they were looking at the sun when they were last together.
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My one condition is Say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress
The only thing that she wants from him is that he won't forget her and will always think about her.
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I can see the end as it begins
She can already see their relationship ending even and the start of them not being together anymore because he's leaving and she's not.
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He's so bad but he does it so well
She might be talking about how maybe he might be bad at doing something, maybe he's not the best boyfriend but he might be good at not being the best boyfriend.
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He's so tall and handsome as hell
She just says about his appearance and she probably uses the word 'hell' to tell us how good looking he is.
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Nothing lasts forever, but this is gonna take me down
Even though that she knows that their not forever she is still really sad at the thought of him just leaving.
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I thought heaven can't help me now
The situation that she is in is so difficult that she knows that there's no way that even heaven can help her.
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Drive out of the city, away from the crowds"
He wants to leave so that he can get away from all the people, maybe he's just tried of certain people and just wants to get away from them. He probably wants a fresh new start.
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He said, "Let's get out of this town
He is telling her that they should leave where they are at and just run away somewhere else.
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and swiveling back to see an orange blur floating perfectly through the net.
He thinks he misses his shot but when he looks up and he sees that the basketball actually goes through the net, he makes it.
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with a wild, headlong motion for the game he loved like a country
Even though he thinks he misses the shot he still loves the game the way that he loves his country.
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but losing his balance in the process, inexplicably falling, hitting the floor
I feel like it means that after all this time, after the whole game he ends up messing up and he loses his balance.
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by himself now and laying it gently against the glass for a lay-up,
It his now his turn and his whole team is not backing him up.
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while the power-forward explodes past them in a fury, taking the ball into the air
I think that this could mean that like the captain or maybe even the best player on the team just goes past them in fury because he's angry and he just takes the ball.
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until the guard finally lunges out and commits to the wrong man
The guard became angry and started getting mad at the wrong person.
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between them without a dribble, without a single bounce hitting the hardwood
It seems like their not even dribbling or bouncing the the ball to each other, it seems like their just running and throwing it to each other.
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and filling the lanes in tandem, moving together as brothers passing the ball
They all seem to have been playing for a really long time, they know each others moves and they see each other as family.
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both forwards racing down the court the way that forwards should, fanning out
They are all running across the court trying to pass the ball to each other.
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in slow motion, almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard,
It's like everything was coming into place and their plan that thy had made is really coming true, it's like what they had been told to do was actually happening.
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of a high, gliding dribble and a man letting the play develop in front of him
The way that the person is dribbling the ball, and the way that it says "letting the play develop" could mean that they'll will be able to get the ball back and continue on with the plan that they had.
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who looks stunned and nailed to the floor in the wrong direction, trying to catch sight
He has fallen because he has lost the ball and everything just happened so fast, you know he has lost the ball by the line, "in the wrong direction" this means that the ball is no longer with them and that they might lose everything.
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an underhand pass toward the other guard scissoring past a flat-footed defender
He's trying to pass it to another player on his team while he's trying to avoid the other player from the opposite team.
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and spinning around to throw a strike to the outlet who is already shoveling
He is probably trying to figure out who to throw the ball to before another player from the other team comes and tries t o take it.
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perfectly, gathering the orange leather from the air like a cherished possession
He was able to take the ball away from the other player, and the orange leather is referring to the basketball.
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and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump
The tallest person that they have is trying to block the person that's on the opposite team as them.
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop,
This makes me think about when you shot the basketball in the hoop and it looks like it's going to make make it, but it end up not making it.
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Don't say I didn't say, I didn't warn ya
She's giving a warning about guys, she's might be trying to tell us young girls to not trust all the guys.
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Boys only want love if it's torture
Guys don't want a good relationship, she's trying to say that they all just cheat in a type of way or leave her and then they have to face her.
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'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream
She may look all nice and sweet but really she's crazy and someone who you don't wanna deal with.
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I get drunk on jealousyBut you'll come back each time you leave
She gets really jealous at the thought that the guy is texting some other girl.
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Keep you second guessing like"Oh, my God, who is she?"
The guy is second guessing about being with her.
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Rose garden filled with thorns
If you touch a rose with thorns on it it can hurt you even if the roses are pretty, just like people even if there pretty they can hurt you.
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Screaming, crying, perfect stormsI can make all the tables turn
She's super angry and she could even flip over the tables around her which is why it is "make all the tables turn".
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Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh, no
The he thinks that things are getting out of hand but she says that that's not even all, that things are gonna get even crazier.
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Find out what you wantBe that girl for a month
She's only gonna pretend to be the girl he wants and then just stop being that girl and turn into herself.
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You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen
She wants to be with him and think of themselves as royalty.
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Stolen kisses, pretty lies
She could be taking about how the guy is just kind of pretending to like her.
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But I've got a blank space, babyAnd I'll write your name
I think this could mean that she she has a spot for him now in guys that she has dated that the relationships went horribly wrong.
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It'll leave you breathlessOr with a nasty scar
Either he'll be like happy or in some way like very amazed with her or he'll end up regretting getting involved with her.
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Cause we're young and we're recklessWe'll take this way too far
Since their young they'll probably end up taking things the wrong way.
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'Cause you know I love the playersAnd you love the game
To me this could mean that she's always dating guys who don't take relationships seriously and that they love playing around with her emotions.
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Cause you know I love the playersAnd you love the game
She could be saying that she has dated lots of guys who don't take their relationship seriously and that they love to play around with her emtions.
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They'll tell you I'm insane
People have probably told him that's she's insane since she's been with so many guys and they probably think that they leave because she's the problem. It doesn't matter if its true or not true.
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You can tell me when it's over, mmhIf the high was worth the pain
She's probably the one in the relationship that always gets dumped so she's used to the guys telling her its over, but she also wonders if time she spent with is going to be worth the heart break she has to go through
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So it's gonna be foreverOr it's gonna go down in flames
She wondering if this relationship is going to last this time or isn't going to end badly like her past relationships.
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Grab your passport and my handI can make the bad guys good for a weekend
She tells him to come with her and that she can't really change him
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So hey, let's be friendsI'm dying to see how this one ends
She doesn't want a relationship so she's just gonna be friends and see what happens, you can tell she's already been through types of situations because she says "lets how this one ends" so she's wondering if it's gonna end the same like the last ones or is it going to be different.
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Ain't it funny rumors flyAnd I know you heard about me
She talks about how she knows people talk about her and so she knows that he knows things about her.
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Ay New money, suit and tieI can read you like a magazine
By the way that he dresses and everything she can already tell what type of guy he is just buy his appearance.
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Love's a game, wanna play?"
She probably has already had her heart broken so to her love just isn't real so she treats it like a type of joke and just play a round with it.
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Saw you there and I thought"Oh, my God, look at that faceYou look like my next mistake
Since she says "next mistake" she could be talking about that she has already been through this type of situation multiple times and can already tell that it isn't going to end well.
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Magic, madness, heaven, sin
She could be talking about how she feels about this person or they she is, like what happens if you get involved with her.
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Nice to meet you, where you been?I could show you incredible things
She's meeting this person for the first time and has wonders why she hasn't met them and why haven't they been in her like already before and that she can show him great things.
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Nor any Placard boast me ‑Itʹs full as Opera ‑
Now she dances for lots of people
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Nor any know I know the ArtI mention ‑ easy ‑ Here ‑
Nobody knows that she knows ballet and that it is easy for her
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Till I was out of sight, in sound,The House encore me so
All she did was dance for herself, she didn't need anybody to watch her dance she was proud of herself.
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Nor tossed my shape in Eider Balls,Nor rolled on wheels of snow
She ended up taking things into her own hands and did what she wanted to do and didn't so what some else said.
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Nor hopped for Audiences ‑ like Birds ‑One Claw opon the air ‑
She doesn't care if there are lots of people watching her, she doesn't need for people to see her she do it on her own.
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And though I had no Gown of Gauze ‑No Ringlet, to my Hair,
She doesn't care if she has all that beauty and pretty things.
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In Pirouette to blanch a Troupe ‑Or lay a Prima, mad,
She was talking about how she could have done different ballet moves
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That had I Ballet Knowledge ‑Would put itself abroad
If she had known ballet then she would've done great things
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But oftentimes, among my mind,A Glee possesseth me,
Sometimes she feels like something just takes over her
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No Man instructed me ‑
She has not been told or has not been taught what to do
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I cannot dance opon my Toes ‑
She probably means that she doesn't know how to do something or she doesn't know how to deal with things
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