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It's a heartbreak even situation Nothing lost and nothing gained So I'm 10 years old again Standing in the backyard waving at a train I feel you make
I love us both but I don't feel good So I keep pulling over And looking under the hood I love us both but I'm at wit's end Where does your compromise
Some crazy fucker carved A sculpture out of butter And propped it up in the middle of The Bonanza breakfast bar And I am stuffing toast and sausage Into
Even when I look right at you I always just see through And I always just see new things To admire about you Am I what you thought you were getting?
She was cuffed to the truth like the truth was a chair Bright interrogation light in her eyes And her conscience lit a cigarette, just stood there Waiting
How sick of me must you be by now? While you're standing just outside of what your pride will allow Always reaching into yourself to find a new way to
If you ask me, I'll say "Yes, please" to you today So don't ask me 'cause I'm weak that way Just don't ask me O.K. I'm so glad we got that Straightened
I'll sing you a song that starts out descriptive And locates a time and a place Like a dinner table where a whole family Is just sitting down to say grace
A cold and porcelain lonely in an old New York hotel A stranger to a city that she used to know so well Bathing in a bathroom that is bathed in the first
White people are so scared of black people They bulldoze out to the country And put up houses on little loop-d-loop streets And while America gets its
She went over to his apartment, clutching her decision He said, ?Did you come here to tell me goodbye?? So she built a skyscraper of procrastination And
Who's gonna give a shit Who's gonna take the call When you find out that the road ahead Is painted on a wall And you're turned up to top volume And you
The answer came like a shot in the back While you were running from your lesson Which might explain why years later all you could remember Was the terror
