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How can you stand the silence |
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That pervades when we all cry? |
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How can you watch the violence |
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That erupts before your eyes? |
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How can you tell us something |
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Just to keep us hangin' on? |
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Somethin' that just don't mean nothing |
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When we see it you are gone |
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Clinging to some other rainbow |
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While we're standing, waiting in the cold |
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Tellin' us the same old story |
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Knowin' time is growin' old |
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That was a wonderful remark |
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I had my eyes closed in the dark |
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I sighed a million sighs |
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I told a million lies to myself, to myself |
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How can we listen to you |
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When we know your talk is cheap? |
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How can we ever question |
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Why we give more and you keep? |
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How can your empty laughter |
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Fill a room like ours with joy |
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When you're only playing with us |
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Like a child does with a toy? |
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How can we ever feel the freedom |
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Or the flame lit by the spark? |
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How can we ever come out even |
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When reality is stark? |
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That was a wonderful remark |
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, yeah |
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I sighed a million sighs |
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I told a million lies to myself, to myself |
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Baby, to myself |
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Baby, to myself |
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To myself, to myself |
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To myself |
