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Your talent outshines all that I could ever do or say

 and me and my jealousy, I stole your songs and passed them off as my own

As much as I would like for it not to show

you can smell the stink on my breath and in my clothes, it's so obvious

oh if I could only be half the things you write about in your songs

if I could only mean half as much to anyone

 and in my arrogance I write pages of anger hate and spite

all of the reasons I have to trust... absolutely no one

today I heard you on my stereo and it shamed me,

 yes it shamed me to think that I could be so unoriginal

oh if I could only be half the genius that you are

to feel such honest want, to show looooooooooooooooooove

I would show you love

 I would show you looooooooooooooooooove

I would show you love

oh if I could only feel half as resolute in my beliefs,

if I could only sing with such bravery

I can not explain how much you mean to me

without your words, I would be lost...