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you've been stuck in my mind like a song,
your name going round and round in circles,
something else too...
something just waiting to be said like it's the first time,
I love you.
I'm impossibly in love with you,
it's the sort of love where I can see a future by your side,
not a childish naïve kind of future;
no, one where we struggle for months just to move in together.
one where we get married but it's simple,
extravagance isn't our thing.
it wouldn't be a fairy tale it would be real,
we'd stress over the messiness of pets but not give a care at the end of the day,
that mess and the re scheduled dinner dates is what I want.
I don't want a dream I want real life,