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Why don't you ever wanna play? |
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I'm tired of this piece of string |
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You sleep as much as I do now |
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And you don't eat much of anything |
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I don't know who you're talking to |
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I made a search through every room |
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But all I found was dust that moved |
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In shadows of the afternoon |
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And listen |
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About those bitter songs you sing |
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They're not helping anything |
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They won't make you strong |
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So we should open up the house |
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Invite the tabby two doors down |
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You could ask your sister if |
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She doesn't bring her basset hound |
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Ask the things you shouldn't miss |
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Tape hiss and the modern man |
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Cold war and card catalogs |
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To come join us if they can |
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For girly drinks and parlor games |
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We'll pass around the easy lie |
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Of absolutely no regrets |
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And later maybe you could try |
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To let your losses dangle off |
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The sharp edge of a century |
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We'll talk about the weather |
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Or how the weather use to be |
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And I'll cater |
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With all the birds that I can kill |
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let their tiny feathers fill |
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Disappointment |
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I'll lie down |
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And lick the sorrow from your skin |
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Scratch the terror and begin |
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To believe you're strong |
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All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV |
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frankly that thing doesn't really interest me |
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I swear I'm going to bite you hard and taste your tinny blood |
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If you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating since the day you brought me home |
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I know you're strong |