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now the bough breaksthe books I readsaid you were a fragile kidjust as I imagined ityour story goes:another nosebleedroses on the pillowcasethe fever breaks, and you're back on earth againyou rehearse in the living roomthe nursemaid comes mid-afternoonto say "you've practiced long enough today"she takes your bowit's suppertimebut oh, your only appetitewas fixed on the chaconne you'd hoped to playso soon you're off to the academythe honoursand the accoladesLetras de cancionesfirst a darlingthen a marvelwhen we metI was still a young girlbut you had changed, already famousyour name was a contagionyou were vain and hard to takeall the same, I was bravehow the tides riseoh, how the tides riseI don't suppose you'd tell the truthso I won't ask you anymoreall the things that we doto pass the time between the warsI don't regret a single dayheard your chaconne on every stagebut your love sleeps in a velvet caseso what'd you bring me for?what'd you bring me for?yeah, ohI hear you keep your pretty wife alive on only briethey say a dozen years agoshe could have passed for meshe doesn't trust you with the babymaybe better that waysafe in your studygoing greyyou're at your bestwhen you're aloneabove the fraywith your chaconnenow the bells toll From Letras Mania