An Historically Accurate Recreation of How I Remembered Your Full Name

But so I had to pull over
To remember your name
You wanted me to pull over
It was you that asked me to pull over
Calling you by your full name
I am calling you by your full name
Can you hear me
Calling you by your full name
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Yes, I am making homemade coffee spritzer
Well it may taste aweful now
But just wait, it will get better
You will see and be asking me how
It’s so easy, conversation techniques
That you can drink
Now here on the side of the road
There seems to be no, or some, hope
That we can fill in the blank again
You and me in this life together
If could only remember your full name
Your full name, so that I may call it
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With your black suit glowing under
The cabin light I feel drawn to speak
About the infinite future, ours
But your full name eludes
Your full name refuses
Your full name confuses
Your full name concludes
That your full name is all I can think of
I want to call you by your full name
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Subdued, I am, by the ocean’s roar
By the tankers rolling on
Pushing water on the shore
One after another in this dead of night
With each rumble of the pavement
Shaking the car I finally see
That the reason we stopped
Was to revere what the coffee stain foretold
On the armrest fold
In the light of the moon
Like chalk dust on every surface
Sprawling and messy, random and permanent
A wise stain it was
Brought to us both here in this car
Where your full name eludes me
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And we slept….
As we slept
I watched the spider
Spin her web
Between the head rest and
The child seat belt strap
So I rolled the window down