[Intro]
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(x4)

[Verse 1]
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For grief is love run backward, a great movie in reverse
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And knowing how it ends can give another something birth.
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Gives another something terrible, great roots inside the earth
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Too late after it’s gone is when we finally weigh its worth.

[Chorus]
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Like how my mother says that funerals have the timing down all wrong.
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You say so much to a person, only after they are gone.
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But grief is love run backward so we love them better than
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Yeah we love them with forgiveness, all because we know the end.

[Outro]
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So I never will stop grieving, everything that’s yet to die.
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I think I love after I’m dead, and grieve while I’m alive.