Verse 1:
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Davie died in the summertime in a hotboxed car
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With a seatbelt 'round his neck and a needle in his arm
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We'd smoke out in the parkin' lot behind convenient shops
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A bought a couple of grams of weed off him, but so did all the cops
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Back then, the kids from other county, we would walk out in the heat
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'Long the train tracks with our paper bags, and gravel in our feet
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In our heads, we picked the husband from the hundred men we knew
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But I kissed a poster of a pop star and checked my breasts in cas they grew
Verse 2:
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No, I never felt like anyone, I was a paradoxul lie
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I didn't think that I was special, but I was too afraid to die
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Like the others from my high school, all those sad suburban ghosts
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Trapped in a cross next to a highway, while the rest of us get old
Bridge:
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The American dream means stayin' young forever
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And the picture in our pamphlet gettin' yellow from the weather
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And years will pass since science class and I might forget your name
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But when the crow's feet come, the kingdom come, well, you'll always look the same
Post-Chorus
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Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen)
D G Em
Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen)
D G A
Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen)
D G Em
Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen)