Intro
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Verse 1:
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What to say, I'm just glad I stayed home
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Cause a day off's the way off this titanic mind
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Coffee grounds look something like burial mounds
Bm A
They are heavy, black, steaming, and elephantine
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But I'm weightless, pale, clammy, and impish today
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I will float with the ghosts and scare people away
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With *unspeakable boilings and tearings apart*
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I've drowned in mathematics now sleeping alone isn't art
Verse 2:
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Friends float down rivers while laughing at government schemes
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Other friends' livers remember the days they were clean
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Things we put in our bodies, just where do they go?
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You think you're such an expert then you oughta know
Verse 3:
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We are seadogs with pyrite to fill up those cracks in between
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Igniting the crevices reading some Life magazines:
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From the fifties, or the sixties
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All the junk I've consumed it resides in a jar
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An archive of my mistakes ever preserved in the stars
Verse 4:
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If I could live one day over I've got one in mind
D A
Woulda done it correctly if I woke up on time
D A
Live one day over, I've got one in mind
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Would have done it correctly if I woke up on time
Verse 5:
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What to do? I'm just troubled by you
Bm A
And the way you behave it's incredibly hard to explain
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Well I'm ill, I'm just bothered and thrilled
Bm
That someone would put up for so long
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Now I guess it's so long again
Verse 6:
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There are things that we put in our bodies
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We know what we're doing and we aren't sorry
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Honestly I don't know how to react
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You think hurting yourself doesn't
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Hurt anybody else
Verse 7:
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There are things that we do that we don't even realize
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Sometimes
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There are people we hurt, yet they stay at our sides
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But only sometimes
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There are signs that some people don't want me around
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Anymore
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There are oceans of strangers and I think it's time that I
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Went and drowned
Verse 8:
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If I could live one day over I've got one in mind
D A
Would have done it correctly if I woke up on time
D A
Live one day over i've got one in mind
D A
Woulda done it correctly if I woke up on time
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Live one day over got one in mind
Bm A
Woulda done it correct if I
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Your hand's flat your hand's freezing said the man in the mirror
Bm A
Count on the girl of your dreams til they shear her (legs off) (yeah legs off)