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verse 1
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Putting pennies on the track, shiny and flat,
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It was the best we could be, sexy and free
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I grow away from myself with each passing bell
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With all these new accessories, I just stumble and bleed
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For a moment I feel the coldness
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At the end of a fall day
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I put my hands down deep in my pockets
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As my body awakes
verse 2
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So I'm heading back to school all brilliant and new,
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Trying hard to fit in and not to walk like a man
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A girl that I never noticed asked me to hold this
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A secret too hard to tell and I never will
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For a moment I feel the coldness
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Of everything that's been taken away
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I put the phone back in the cradle,
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I can't make this okay
Bridge
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The damage she'll survive
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But damn the sacrifice of
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Every life we've lost
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Damn all the cost of the assault
verse 3
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You tied a knot and you dared me,
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The stem of a cherry,
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To find my own humanity
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And just let it breathe
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Hold my head up in this moment
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Keep myself from fading away
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Pull my hands out of pockets and
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Feel my body awake
Outro
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