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His nervous heart has long stopped beating |
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But the body still pretends that it is me |
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And if all the queues are met |
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The lowest expectation set |
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You will suspend your disbelief |
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And you and I can act like nothing ever happened |
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We can be so unaffected by the course of history |
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If what you've lost gives you a reason to surrender |
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How can you pretend that this is who you want to be |
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Wanted to tell you not to give up |
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That the reward was worth the pain |
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But a lie to ease your sorrow is still a lie |
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And what could either of us hope to gain |
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When you and I still act like nothing ever happened |
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We can be so unaffected by the course of history |
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If what you've lost gives you a reason to surrender |
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How can you pretend that this is who you want to be |
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We let our systems shut down |
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We build so many walls |
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Yes we're afraid, but we are safe |
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And no one ever has to know |
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That we have nowhere else to go |
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We want outside ourselves |
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But it's to late |
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We were acting like nothing ever happened |
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So ashamed to be affected by the course of history |
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And what we lost gave me a reason to surrender |
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I can't remember now what I had hope to be |
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You didn't want to lie to me |
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You didn't want to tell the truth |
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But there was just no other way |
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The world would keep it's faith in you |
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You didn't want to burn it down |
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But you couldn't let it be |
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You sweep the ashes off the ground |
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And you suspend your disbelief |
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By my own hand he said |
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By my hand |
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I will fall |
