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I've loaned a lot of things to a lot of friends

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Like dresses and records and books

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And a lot of the time I never see them again

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And in a weird way I think that that works

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'Cause the thing about things is they start 
to turn evil

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When you start to forget what they're for

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And so if you're not sure what you did with 
my sweater

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I'll just have to love you a little bit more

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I had a ring, it belonged to my grandfather

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He was a mason, and gay

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And he was distant and bitter for all of 
my childhood

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And we never had much to say

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He wasn't the type to give tokens of affection

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So I stole the ring when he died

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And then twenty years on, when I lost it 
at a bar

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I thought, that's fine, I don't want him 
in my life

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'Cause the thing about things is that

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They can start meaning things

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Nobody actually said

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And if he couldn't make

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Something mean something for me

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I had to make up what it meant

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I can carry everything I need

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In one collapsing suitcase

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I can carry everyone I love

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In one phone application

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Built to maximize the Facetime of the friends

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I'm bent on making

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Actually I want to be alone

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To mourn the loss of what it cost

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I think it's a poem and I think it keeps 
going

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and I've borrowed and loaned lots of things

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Three nights ago in the bar where I lost 
it

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The bartender gave me the ring

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And I lie in bed

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With my phone in my hand, thinking

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What can I fix with which app?

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I call my grandfather

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He doesn't answer

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And I have to make peace with that fact

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Because the thing about things

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Is that they can start meaning things nobody 
actually said

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And if you're not allowed to love people 
alive

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Then you learn how to love people dead

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The thing about things

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Is that they can start meaning things nobody 
actually said

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And if you're not allowed to love people 
alive

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Then you learn how to love people dead