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A slow strangle with your feet on the floor
I've got 14 angels and we're sleeping alone
In the back of a cave, where the rest of us go
To feel normal
He didn’t know what he was doing. Gregory Lestrade had become an important person for him, even if he didn’t realized it yet. Even if he could never admit it. When he was with him everything seemed easy. The conversation flowed, there was no need for small talk. But he didn’t mind to have it with Gregory. He made everything special. He found himself calling him after a bad day. Seeking the companionship of the Detective. Yearning for his boyish smile.
I call baby up. Leave me alone.
I'm in pain but I won't let you Band-Aid my wound
I am mad at a stage where I can't seem to handle my own
can't even handle my
It was something so new to him. He would never admit it, he couldn’t. Because he was Mycroft Holmes, and he didn’t care about anyone. But he was slowly realizing that as his brother used drugs, he used Gregory. To escape the dull routine of existence. To keep his mind quiet.
Give me a quiet mind and I...
I love you
You give me a quiet mind and I...
I love you
Until the end
Until the end
Because Gregory saw in him something no one ever could. He saw a human being. Something he had long ago denied to be. Something no one else believed him to be.
Give me strength to be kind... To combine
All the good things in life that are so hard to find
But I have and I won't let them go like I do with my friends (my friends)
He helped him through so much without even realizing it. Always there when he called. Willing to listen, even if he didn’t say much. And somehow, he always understood, he always knew what to say.
Still hearing voices... From front... From behind
They're the reasons I choose... When to live... How to die
When to cast... When to reel
When to buy... When to steal
And when to fiend for the friends that taught you
Being inappropriate will
Dear, sweet Gregory. He slays my demons, he gives me peace. He allows me to be myself, and he makes me a better person/ And I… I love him.
Give me a quiet mind and I
I love you
You give me a quiet mind and I
I love you
You give me a quiet (quiet) mind and I
I love you
You give me a quiet mind and I
you give me
And I love you
Until the end
Oh-oh-oh-oh