BEYOND YOURSELF

If you can't see...

Beyond yourself...

How can you love...

Somebody else

If you are first...

In everything...

Professing love...

Won't mean a thing
Just a bunch of lies to me
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Sure wish that you could see

~~~*Chorus*~~~
Narcissus was an empty shell
Always staring at himself
If you can't look on past the view
The only one you love is you
~~*~~

You cannot spare...
Your precious time...
To help a friend...
Out of a bind
You think that you're...
The only one...
Whom we should aid...
When things need done
That's not the way that hearts are won
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I'm sorry you're so numb

~~~*Lyrical Bridge*~~~
You make me want to put on my beat-you-gloves
Sense-knocking tools about the rules of love
I wouldn't have the time it takes to get them laced
Before you run to protect that pretty face
~~*~~
It's better if you run away
*

You are far too vain

~~~*Chorus*~~~
Narcissus was an empty shell
Always staring at himself
If you can't look on past the view
The only one you love is you
~~*~~

~~~*Finale*~~~
Beyond yourself
Does not compute
The only one 
You love is you
Selfishness is a lonely Hell
You must see beyond yourself
Beyond yourself
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Teresa Lynn Johnson
Wrdspnr@aol.com
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