Turtle in a Chinese Food Box

Written by Charlie Peacock

It's Time To Art/Songs of Universal (BMI) ©2024

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Let's meet in the park, that's where we'll start

I'll bring you a turtle, baby

In a Chinese food box

We'll talk for hours, the world will be ours

We'll have a good time, I'll make you laugh a lot

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There's no reason to think that anything but true love will bloom

'Cause we don't know what we don't know

The land we've been given is dirt made of hurt

Where the seeds of roses and weeds both grow

In the space of an inch, so closely entwined,

These two incongruent live to indwell our minds

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Let's meet in the park, that's where we'll start

I'll bring you a turtle, baby

In a Chinese food box

We'll talk for hours, the world will be ours

We'll have a good time, I'll make you laugh a lot

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You know you're in love when you ride your bike ten miles for a kiss

But you don't yet know how the wind will blow

The land we've been given, is dirt made of hurt

Where the seeds of roses and weeds both grow

In the space of an inch, so closely entwined,

These two incongruent live to indwell our minds

Make us beautiful and unkind

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Who shall rescue us? Who shall rescue us?

Who shall rescue us? Rescue us, rescue us

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Let's meet in the park, that's where we'll start

I'll bring you a turtle, baby

In a Chinese food box

We'll talk for hours, the world will be ours

We'll have a good time, I'll make you laugh a lot

(I like to think that I made you laugh a lot)