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Intro

 It started with a dedication

 "lost in admiration - happy birthday - i'm forever yours - blossom"

 Faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies

 I smiled surprised at how when flickered through

 The wings flew by spelled out my name

 Six months went by the summer lost

 Obsessively the letters dropped into my life

 The same soft blood smooth flowing hand

 "please try to understand - i have to see you - have to feel you -

 Tell you all the ways i need you - yours forever in love"

Strange attraction spreads its wings

 It varies but the smallest things

 You never know how anything will change

 Strange attraction spreads its wings

 And alters but the smallest things

 You never know how anything will fade

Intro

 The year grew old incessantly she wrote to me

 She'd started smoking poetry!

 I laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase

 She'd pulled me in...

I answered her

 A christmas card in sepia

 Arranging when and where

 And how the two of us should meet...

 Her opening so well prepared

 A nervous smile

 I couldn't take my eyes from her

She whispered

 "can i use some of your lipstick?"

 It was perfect so believable

 I couldn't help but feel that it was real

 And kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms

Strange attraction spreads its wings

 It varies but the smallest things

 You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads its wings

 And alters but the smallest things

 You never know how anything will fade

Intro

 So alone into the cold new year without another word from her

 I wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring

 But weeks went by with no reply untill once more my birthday came

 And with it my surprise but this time nothing was the same...

 "i'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination

 I was sure you'd be the one but i was wrong -

 It seems reality destroys our dreams - i won't forget you blossom"

 Faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes...

Strange attraction spreads its wings

 It varies but the smallest things

 You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads its wings

 And alters but the smallest things

 You never know, you never know, and you never know...