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Let me have your heart and I will give you love
The denotation of my soul is the above
I f there's anything I lack, it's
you as my double brackets
You make me mean things
I can't say enough.

Consider me your anaphor, I'm bound to you
There's no one else that I could be referring to
Your features all attract me
We're such a perfect match, please
Agree with me
I need to be with you.

Well I don't know how to say exactly how I feel about you
‘Cos it seems my Broca's area stops working right around you
Forgive me my disfluency –
There's nothing I can do, you see,
You speak to me, linguistically I'm yours.

Now I know you tend to isolate, and that's all right
Like free morphemes you and I could lead our separate lives
But if we were to agglutinate
Together we would do so great
and I'd hate to miss the words we could derive.

Well I don't know how to say exactly how I feel about you
‘Cos it seems my Broca's area stops working right around you
Forgive me my disfluency –
There's nothing I can do, you see,
You speak to me, and linguistically I'm yours

So please don't be my allophone and disappear
really awkwardly whenever I start getting near
Let's be a minimal pair
‘Cos I'm totally cool with us both being there
My environment is better when you're here
My environment is better when you're here
Yeah, my environment is better when you're here
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