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Falling for a friend is inadvisable. This song is about the brief period between the arrival of these spectacularly inconvenient feelings and the moment you force the issue and make things really uncomfortable. You want to savor this time, because even if everyone's able to move on, things are never quite the same.

Incidentally, the bridge wound up sounding like it was about sex. It's not. Trust me. I would've noticed.

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it began
and lately I've been ruined
'cause even then
I knew I couldn't hold you to it
but I grew brave
and tried to win an answer
tried to make
something brilliant even grander

drink deep these moments one by one
they taste like summer on my tongue
'cause once you know, they're gone

you won't rust
in my imagination
if you'd just
succumb to this temptation
but just like that
you fade into the sidelines
fade to black
like deer escaping headlights

drink deep these moments one by one
they taste like summer on my tongue
'cause once you know, they're gone

well, it started off bad and then got worse
but I remember a moment things seemed to work
we were lying on our sides
breathing hard and ignoring the light
and in this tangle of limbs we're holding
I still remember what you told me:
"no matter how we feel when we're done
drink deep these moments one by one"

drink deep these moments one by one
they taste like summer on my tongue
'cause once you know, they're gone

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from Higher Learning, released July 10, 2013
written by David Gassmann

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"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order . . . My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Final Problem" ... more

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