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My father I failed |
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You as a man |
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Can't keep up with these hours |
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That the sunny sweaty day hands |
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My card was never checked in |
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And I slept through the morning |
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And most of the afternoon |
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But who cares because god never calls me |
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No he never cares for me |
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And my father I don't intend to let you down |
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I'm sorry but these days keep getting longer |
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Well it's time, time to get up |
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Take a shower change your clothes |
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Make yourself some breakfast |
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And off to work you go |
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And take your pills have a cup |
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Get home and watch TV. |
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Then read a book and it's off to dreaming |
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But too bad its 4 in the morning |
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And everybody simple is sleeping |
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And soon my body will show that same fate |
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But instead I'll wake up around 6 or 8 |
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I'll go downstairs get a drink |
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Sit down at that computer |
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Paint some words and shy away |
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While everyone is working |
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And hate yourself and feel alone |
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And analyze this |
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My boy you just need to stop worrying |
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And yes your friends they all love you |
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And yes your family well they do too |
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But nobody's gonna give you all they should |
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Or that or this or that or this or this |
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Well I know this boy |
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That could sell me vitamins |
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He says get a glass swallow down and you'll be happy |
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Then I'm feeling fine I'm talking much I'm making things work |
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And this is how I'm supposed to live |
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And for now I'm watching the TV sets |
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And I need a glass to save my chest |
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And my heart is beating so rapidly |
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That I can't seem to concentrate on sleep |
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So here we go another day |
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To drive off onto Douglass |
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And grab a cup and lay on grass |
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And talk to all your fake friends |
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And sit and stare at the cars fly by |
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Head feels weak you wonder why |
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You could never be like them |
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But that's the part of the deal my friend |
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Yes your doctors have been telling you this since you were 10 |
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That nothing would ever be what you wanted |
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Because you seem to look for too much perfection |
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Well it's summertime lets get a girl |
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And undress and your drunk |
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We'll roll around my unmade bed and whisper pillow talk |
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We'll speak of names we'll speak of skins |
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We'll even sing a song |
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About how we are simply in love |
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But you know she's never coming my friend |
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Yes the only girl that will save me |
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And I'll never have to write another tune |
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About this girl she broke my heart |
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We're through |
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So come on mark |
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Lets drive to San Francisco |
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Yea yell at cars you'll tell a joke |
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And we'll just be smiling then |
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How funny it seems that we have been making these words work |
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Since we were children |
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Well is guitar really saving us? |
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Or could it be just coincidence |
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And i'm glad to know that my only true friend |
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You've got my side when I'm dying |
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So I'm coming to visit you my brothers |
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We'll have a drink and share another and another |
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And we'll talk of story girls and future mishaps |
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And how we will fit into them |
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And you'll ask me how are my nephews and nieces |
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You say they're doing fine |
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Do you miss them? |
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And I'm sorry I haven't been around that often |
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But...but..but I swear I swear I swear I'll make it up |
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So I'm coming home to see you Gina |
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We'll go to Monterey and snap some photos of this day |
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You'll tell me that I'm a fool and that I don't know the truth |
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Because I don't believe you |
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Well maybe this time she can get it right |
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Or maybe this time she will be right |
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Or maybe this time I could just say to you |
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Hey I ****ed up and I told her that we're through |
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And so come today I'll be sleeping in my bed |
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I'll circle the fan that sits right above my head |
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And ill try to count as many that go around I guess |
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Before my eyes go red |
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And I'll try to keep moving |
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In the slumber world |
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Yea that's where I make up all my beauty there |
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Like I wish that only simple ignorance |
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Was tied around my neck |
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Like a necklace |
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Like a locket |
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Like a trinket |
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Like a poem |
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Like a song and |
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Like a girl and |
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And like a movie script |
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And like you |
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And like you |
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And like you |
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And like you you you |
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And you you you |
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And you |
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And you |
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And you |
