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Can I be Selfish?

Let me have this moment This space that'll forever be lost Let it live on inside me In my heart In my mind Can I be selfish? Do I deserve to be selfish? Why should I have this? Why should I have you? Can I be selfish? Just for a moment The still holds us close I'm afraid Can I be selfish? If I breathe, play will resume all that I struggled to hold near Can I be selfish? Do I deserve you? Can I be selfish? There's no place for me I shake as I fear that this too will leave my grasp Can I be selfish? Right here Can I be selfish? If I move, I'll never find you again Can I be selfish? Here Can I be selfish? I blink and everything has changed Can I be selfish? I want to go back Can I be selfish? That moment Can I be selfish? You looked at me with life Can I be selfish? I've lost myself Away in the wind to never to be returned to me Can I be selfish? These breaths are foreign and unknown Who am I? Can I be selfish? No.

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