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Created on: July 03, 2010 Last Updated: September 07, 2011
Someone turn a light on,
There’s a darkness in my head.
I’ve been acting strangely
And I always feel half-dead.
I’m sleeping more each night,
But my dreams fill me with dread.
Someone turn a light on,
For I wake in strangers beds.
Someone turn the light off,
For my conscience saw the news.
Another woman murdered,
By her bedside were my shoes.
I woke today without them
And my clothes were bloody too.
Someone turn the light off,
Best not know the things I do.
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