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Cruel or Kind
...The words have come out wrong

She told him she'd love him for all time
Guess she didn't know she'd change her mind so many times
She wrote a thousand letters in the fall
Guess she didn't know she'd never burn them after all

Is it cruel? Is it kind?
Is it cruel? Is it kind?

She held her hand against the wall
A test of her own strength, she didn't know if it would fall
She told him she'd changed her mind so many times
Guess she didn't realize that she'd love him for all time

Is it cruel? Is it kind?
Is it cruel? Is it kind?

She cuts him when he waits too long
He bleeds like poetry or song
He tries to take it back
She wipes away the time it took
The words have come out wrong....

She held her hand against the sky
A test of her own faith while she's still strong enough to try
She burned a thousand letters in the fall
Guess she didn't realize she'd rewrite them after all

Is it cruel? Is it kind?
Is it cruel? Is it kind?

She cuts him when he waits too long
He bleeds like poetry or song
He tries to take it back
She wipes away the time it took
The words have come out wrong....


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