"A song like you would never tell me the truth...
It would turn me on, break me down,
make me feel like there is nothing outside this room.

A song like you would have me lost in my youth—Oh, baby, a song like you..."

Bea Miller, a song like you

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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive: the queen learns that to heal, she has to break off the pieces that have broken — that to blossom, she needed to first wilt and that the night was always darkest before dawn. The queen learns that she is no dragon, and a crown with diamonds does not symbolize her worth to her people. Yui Akaashi learns to love.

Yui Akaashi learns to be loved.