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She makes a home and she stays mum |
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About the things she might have done |
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She keeps her eyes firm on the ground to set her own life |
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Makes up her face and not her mind, to be a wife |
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There was a time away back then |
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She might have thought to think again |
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But then through dolls and schoolyard games, like ma before her |
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She learned girls play the family way, don't look for more |
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She's just playing, playing safe |
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Playing houses, safe as houses |
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Here on this street when they were kids |
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He built his dreams with colored bricks |
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But comes the time for him to prove that he's a man now |
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He gets a wife and makes his move to three doors down |
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He's playing, playing safe |
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Playing houses, safe as houses |
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For there was no one there to say |
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It didn't have to be that way |
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You never get the best of you |
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When you do what they expect you to |
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You've heard it all, how you're no use |
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You're born to fail, so follow suit |
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But if you feel and got a dream, don't dare ignore it |
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'Cause that is what you've got to be, you must go for it |
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Don't play it, play it safe |
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A plague on houses, safe as houses |
