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And sometimes when the night is slow
The wretched and the meek
We gather up our hearts and go
A Thousand Kisses Deep.
--
"A Thousand Kisses Deep" (2001)

 

Leonard Cohen

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Do you curse where you come from?
Do you swear in the night?
Will it mean much to you
If I treat you right?
Do you like what you're doing?
Would you do it some more?
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What you're doing it for?
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Nick Drake

 

Never again I would know her slow kisses which are hardly felt. Never again the ringing mourning bells, songs of the dead that we loved.

 

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Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

 

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson

 

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