do you rearrange yourself so someone will stay? not because they asked because someone taught you early that the original shape of you wasn't the keeping kind. i don't know if it's good. i know it's true.
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Your mouth stays only mouth with me
It doesn't turn the whole room strange
It doesn't send my body searching
For some place to slip its frame
Your hands stay only where they are
Your voice stays in a human key
And when you say my name out loud
I don't go gray somewhere inside
It doesn't have a word in me
It might have one in you
That inner part that's always known
You can't say it isn't true
Right size me
I'll do that
Say what size I need to be
Keepable, Carriable
What shape works best with you
I don't lose my turn
I don't shock away
So if staying near means shifting shape
I think I would do that too
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What is love
What is love
What is love
I wasn't shown
I wasn't shown
I wasn't shown
Not one that fit the way I mean
Just borrowed boys and waiting girls
And all the blanks between those scenes
So if I say it hush
Or I say it slant
I still mean every word I find
I knew how to make myself fit
Before I knew what fit was for
Tell me my size
Tell me my size
Tell me the seam
Tell me the seam
Tell me how close
Tell me how close
How far unseen
Tell me the part
I play to make you touch
Tell me the line
When I become too much
I'll do anything
I think I could
Make myself smaller
It does this to me
I don't know why
It does this to me
I'll be shape sized soon you'll see
Say my name to name the cost
Really, I don't mind
No, I'm not lost
Why won't you?
Right size me
Help size me
I'll do it
Size me
Say what size I need to be
Keepable
Carriable
Keepable
What shape works best with you?
Keepable
A smaller me in a smaller room
I can be less to be lighter to hold
If staying near means shifting shape
I think I would
If there are right ways I won't be wrong
If there are words I'll learn them too
Just say what size I need to be
I'll shape the me
That gets to be
With you
Your mouth stays only mouth with memore