You’re a harbinger of good things to come
A sign that it’s all changing for me
It’s happiness, euphoria , it’s something out of a fantasy
Life was so jejune before I met you
It was so ordinary
Prosaic and banal, pedestrian, mundane
Nothing extraordinary
So I took a sojourn , I took a short trip
I needed a respite
A break from the routine that enveloped me, that surrounded me
Well I look back with incredulity
I cannot believe that you rescued me
You’re a harbinger of good things to come
A sign that it’s all changing for me
It’s happiness, euphoria , it’s something out of a fantasy
I’m so morose when you’re not around
I’m sad and glum when I’m all alone
I’ve a penchant for your company
Your company is my tendency
We’re balanced, you and me
We are symmetry
Let me be a raconteur , a story teller
Tell you my agenda
A list of ways for us to celebrate, to exult in each other
Turn our love into a wild fire, a conflagration , burning through and through
Turn our love into a mosaic
A picture with a million different pieces spelling out the words “I love you.”
When I saw you I had an epiphany
A revelation , a moment of clarity
You’re a harbinger of good things to come
A sign that it’s all changing for me
It’s happiness, euphoria
, it’s something out of a fantasy
I’m so morose when you’re not around
I’m sad and glum when I’m all alone
I’ve a penchant for your company
Your company is my tendency
You’re a harbinger of good things to come
A sign that it’s all changing for me
It’s happiness, euphoria
, it’s something out of a fantasy
I’m so morose when you’re not around
I’m sad and glum when I’m all alone
I’ve a penchant for your company
Your company is my tendency
You’re the state of being supreme
You are supremacy
We’re balanced, you and me,
We are symmetry
You’re the state of being supreme
You are supremacy
You’re my little harbinger, you’re my little harbinger
And things are gonna change for me…

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Just as the robin is a harbinger of the coming spring, so do those horrible, wet boots foretell the arrival of my least favorite season.
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Derek felt absolute euphoria when Ella let him borrow her red finger-paint, but his joy soured when he discovered that she had poisoned the paint with a powerful toxin.
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Hunger Games fans as jejune because, after endless chats, it had already been concluded that Gale was the true winner.

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I won’t bore you with the prosaic details of my weekend-long marathon Bananagrams tournament against myself, except to say: I won.
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Instead of releasing something new and interesting Hollywood force-feeds us an endless stream of banal action movies in which muscle-bound goons blow things up.
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Like many cheese snobs, Brady finds generic mac-n-cheese too pedestrian for fine dining instead of Kraft, and uses it instead as a deodorant stick.
Note: this does NOT mean ‘a person who walks .”

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meaning “death” (Latin)
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We all felt sorry for Mrs. Nordin when she did not make it on Wheel of Fortune, but after months of morose depression, everyone secretly wish the crew would just TAKE HER AWAY!
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The fact that there are so many synonyms for mundane is a clear sign that we need to turn off the TV and go outside for some fresh air.
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After endless lounges on the beach, sleeping in, and delicious food on his sojourn in Florida, Ab’s was so relaxed she had to fly home in a bucket.

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Word origin – from the Old French word respit meaning delay, respect;
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Between books, the B.O.B teams went out for a relaxing respite and a nice bowl of chicken noodle soup.
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Death by slow-acting poison or death by being completely enveloped in a cloud of flesh-burning gas…hmmm. I would choose death by chocolate.
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Stunned into disbelief, Brennon expressed his incredulity by shuffling in circles around the kitchen saying, “There’s no such thing as a freezer ghost.”

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Josh’s penchant for high explosives will either earn him a job on a demolition crew or turn him into tiny little bite-sized chunks.
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While Buford’s life was indeed tragic-he was born on a pig form and died choking on a sausage link-it had a certain poetic, porkly symmetry to it.
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Always a witty raconteur , Kyle captivated his audience with tales of his adventures in Malaysia, where he wrestled with the rare and fearsome speckled newt.
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Undergoing surgery wasn’t on today’s agenda
, but since my legs have been severed from my body, I guess I’ll add it to the list.
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The Viking fans exulted in their team’s victory by trampling each other in a mad rush to the field. NOT!!!
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The firemen could not contain the unbelievable conflagration caused by little Mari’s Easy-Bake oven.
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Sofa is making us a mosaic out of Sweet-Tarts for Valentine’s Day, but she can’t find the right color to represent the joyful feeling she gets while reading ANY and ALL books!
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After hours of memorizing vocabulary from note cards, Blake had a powerful epiphany and realized he was going about it all wrong. Inspired, he paid someone else to take his exam. Just kidding!!!
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Zookeeper Brady conveniently disappeared when revelations about his peculiar fondness for licking toads came to light.
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Now that my ELA students have reached academic supremacy over all other students at Oak View, we set our sights on our higher goal: to win ALL writing contests AND read more books that ALL other classes!
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