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Intro:
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verse 1
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You walk by the magazines sitting on the rack at the CV--S
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One more sad movie star divorce, three hundred died in an airplane wreck
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And you think of all the people suffering and you bury that pain
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But you can tell me everything and we’ll ride on that wave
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If I was king of the world, you’d be my girl, you wouldn’t have to shed one single
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Tear unless you wanted to, 'cause yeah I know what it’s like
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If I was king of the world, yeah girl, we could ride a Greyhound all the
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Way to the Galapagos, stay for the rest of our lives
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa whoa whoa whoa
verse 2
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Dad hit you on the hand just for holding your chopsticks wrong
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Then your mom locked you in a shed and Uncle Sam dropped an atom bomb
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But you’re not alone, you can let it go and just weep on my breast
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And cover me with your tenderness and that pain will pass
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If I was king of the world, you’d be my girl, you wouldn’t have to shed one single
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Tear unless you wanted to, 'cause yeah I know what it’s like
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If I was king of the world, yeah girl, we could ride a Greyhound all the
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Way to the Galapagos, stay for the rest of our lives
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa whoa whoa whoa
Bridge
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We are the small fish
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We swim together
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No Prozac or Valium, we’ll
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Face tsunamis together
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If I was king of the world, you’d be my girl, you wouldn’t have to shed one single
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Tear unless you wanted to, 'cause yeah I know what it’s like
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If I was king of the world, yeah girl, we could ride a Greyhound all the
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Way to the Galapagos, and stay for the rest of our lives
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa whoa whoa whoa
Written by Rivers Cuomo/Jarrad Kritzstein