- I love you like a gasp for air
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clawing my way to the surface
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I love you like a battle scream
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the way protestors use megaphones for chants
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I love you like a mortal wound
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pressure unable to stop the blood gushing out from between our fingers
- I love you when everyone said it was wrong
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I love you when everyone fought to stop
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I love you now that some tolerate us
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I loved you then
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I love you now
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I will love you in our future
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whatever that looks like now
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I will fight for my right to hold your hand
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I will fight for my right to kiss you
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I will fight for my right to marry you
- Our love isn't something that must be dirty
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hidden
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painful
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- We will love whether it is legal or not
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We will find our families whether it is legal or not
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Our legality does not dictate our morality
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It only dictates how afraid we are to live each moment
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- God, I am scared for you
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I never believed in God
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But you do
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and I am scared
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scared that you'll die without me
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scared you will be murdered in the street and nobody will tell me
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that i will wait for months like last time
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holding out for a person who is long dead
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I will hold on
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I have not been the first to die yet
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I will love you as unapologetically as the last
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And I will fear losing you
- I love you
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like a body needs water
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I love you
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But I can survive if you are torn away from me