All you could see was her silhouette
Not the dust bowl raging inside
Outside the trappings of etiquette
She cut you down to size
She said, “You could always get to the core of me,
But you could never let me leave”
When you turned to her your thoughts would crash like thunder
But in your sorrow lay the truth you’d sought to hide
You will go to the paper towns and never come back
You will ignite the huddled masses with the poetry they lack
Though your voice is muffled with aging sins grown bitter in their ways
Don’t speak softly, don’t walk slowly, and don’t count the days
No, don’t count the days
She was only a silhouette
All whispered secrets and easy grace
Beneath the armor of etiquette
Reciting names to patron saints to keep them safe
But the names find ways to lose themselves in shadow and song
You can escape only in the losing of the end for which you’d longed
When you turned from her the strings inside you broke
And in your sorrow there was one more truth
You will go to the paper towns and never come back
You will ignite the huddled masses with the poetry they lack
Though your voice is muffled with aging sins grown bitter in their ways
Don’t speak softly, don’t walk slowly, and don’t count the days
No, don’t count the days
Burn the Paper Towns!
Burn the Paper Towns!
Burn the Paper Towns!
See the heart beating beneath!
We will go to the paper towns and never come back
We will ignite inside ourselves yet unsung poetry we lack
Through voices muffled with aging sins grown bitter in their ways
We won’t speak softly, we won’t walk slowly, and we won’t count the days
No, we won’t count the days, no, we won’t count the days
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