Kiranjyot Kaur – Guide To Loving a Soft Boy [Video]

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guide to loving a soft boy
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if only you knew how to love a soft boy
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you’d say boyhood like a prayer
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boyhood would sound like dolphs taking
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flight from your mouth to god himself
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for his boyhood of not learning
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how to say prayers and catcalls one
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something like the other so often you do
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not know if you go down on your knees or
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make him come down to his
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when you hear the word pray you wouldn’t
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think it meant pray
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noun would i become for boys boys who
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are so afraid of my metaphors they count
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me as a language instead of a person
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learn how to love a soft boy like you
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first learned how to spell god
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easy but careful do not let the world
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hurt like an
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answer hanging by a hook through your
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left cheek
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soft boys come like merry-go-rounds like
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fairy lights
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like fairy lights on a merry-go-round
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and like squeezing your favorite
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person’s hand like fairy lights on a
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merry-go-round and you squeeze your
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favorite person’s hand but he eventually
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pulls away
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not everything falls into place like a
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fairy tale
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he will apologize to you though later or
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maybe even never but he will find an
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apology lined up at his fingertips when
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he tries
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to hold your hand again he will tuck it
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behind your ear and ask you to find it
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forgive him when he does that he is more
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sorry than you’ve ever been
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or you’ll ever be he keeps his stories
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in a glass jar at the back
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of his throat it is too brutal the lid
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comes off too
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easily do not ask him why just tell him
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you love him and wash that jar
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turn into honey pot turn bathtub turn to
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baptism he will christen you love
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take that tuck it behind your ear love
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soft boys will hand you halos bigger
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than your own existence
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he is chocolate dipped strawberries on
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sunny picnic days he
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is the picnic he is the sunny day that
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kisses you on your cheek
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he is blueberry cheesecake in the palm
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of your hands at 1am in the kitchen he
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is the thing your existence can never
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get enough of
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so you keep his halo in your studio
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apartment
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fold it enough to fit it in the space
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between your ribs
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breathe easy my love the halo does not
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come with edges
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he does not come in roaring he comes in
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soft packs he comes in freckles and
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books read on a beach he comes like the
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beach
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like the ocean and the salty air he
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comes like every good thing you’ve ever
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known or touched but that does not mean
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he’s all good
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he’s bad too but he will be good for you
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until you both drive the worst of each
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other out and you blast your favorite
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song so loud you do not hear the sound
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of wreckage thumping your front door
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it never breaks in you both lie
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in your bed clinging like moths to a
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porch light you left the porch light on
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last night
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because you fell asleep on the porch
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swing riding an elegy for the last boy
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that left you there
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girl remember this boy does not ask for
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elegies or suicide notes or olds this
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boy only asks for love letters and who
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better than you
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to write love letters who better than
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you
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my love there is no guide to loving a
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soft boy right
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kiss him and he won’t necessarily kiss
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you back
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he might just come undone in the palm of
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your hand and talk about how the ocean
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is just vastness he cannot handle
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so you give him a seashell put it to his
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ear and say
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here listen to it there is no music your
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ears cannot decipher there is no
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worseness this hollowness cannot
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hold look into his eyes and you won’t
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necessarily find love for yourself
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he is good at hiding stuff more
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specifically his feelings do not intrude
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let his heart be the museum where you
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are the art
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and he has put up signs saying do not
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touch
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so do not touch anything love
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so if he tells you he wants to love you
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let him

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