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I recall once on the church steps |
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When I moved to kiss your chest |
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How we paid such close attention |
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To each sweet and stuttered breath |
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I should've stopped to paint our picture |
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Captured honest, pure affection |
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Just to document the difference |
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Between attraction and connection |
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I can see all of my friends |
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And I break into empty buildings |
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When the coast was clear |
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With backpacks full of beer |
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We'd throw our bottles from the rooftops |
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At this city, it looked endless |
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Guess I still don't see the difference |
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Between real purpose and that urgent adolescence |
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And I remember, in a basement |
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Sharing sweat with all these stranger boys and girls |
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"We'll change the world," we sang |
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"We'll change the world" |
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But nothing seems to change |
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And they say none of them will listen |
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But I still see much more power in that basement |
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Than in heartless politicians |
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If we get beaten by this winter |
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If we get strangled by regret |
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Just let our love of life and tension |
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Gasp in sweet and stuttered breaths |
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And have them lay us in a basement |
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Smash some bottles on the ground |
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And say we couldn't tell the difference |
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Between the feeling and the sound |
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Remember not our faulty pieces |
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Remember not our rusted parts |
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It's not the petty imperfections that define us |
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But the way we hold our hearts |
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And the way we hold our heads |
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I hope they write your names beside mine |
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On my gravestone when I'm dead |
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And when we are dead, let our voices carry on |
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To find a better song |
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To find a better song and sing along |
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Sing along |
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