Tilt-A-Whirl

My phantom brother came to me
 His backlit face was hard to see
 I couldn't move
 I couldn't scream
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 You can't un-hear Beethoven's Fifth
 This human heart's an aggregate
 Competing feelings so disparate
 And strange
 Life's a solitary song
 No one to clap or sing along
 It sounds so sweet, and then it's gone
 So suddenly
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 My ageing mother steeled herself
 Against the gravity she felt
 Braced for another fainting spell
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 Fell in her mind through a trap door
 We picked her up off of the floor
 When she came to, her throat was sore
 And she spoke
 Life's a game of Solitaire
 Amusement rides at county fairs
 The Tilt-A-Whirl of our despair
 Ends suddenly
 Where'd it go?
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 Life's a lonely love affair
 Kaleidoscope beyond compare
 It vanishes into thin air
 So suddenly