Key: D
Introduction:
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I didn?t expect to see you here ?
I mean outside, smoking.
Gb2
I?m more of a nicorette girl these days.
Ab
I?m joking.
Dbsus
Gb
But who feels like joking now?
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I?ll see you your scowl
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And raise you a furrowed brow.
Anyway.
Db2
Anyway.
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Dbsus
Do you remember how we used to read
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Rilke, Joyce?
Dbsus
Ab Db2
But it gave us a voice
Or a language?
Ab
I don?t read poetry anymore.
Db2
But if I did,
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I?d be reading it tonight for sure.
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Oh. Oh.
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I keep thinking about how the timing seems false.
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How some days seem faster than my fucking pulse.
Db2
And others go so slow.
Gb2
Like this morning
Ab2
Feels like a month ago.
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Oh. Oh.
Gb2 Ab2
Oh. Oh.
Ab2
I feel like I?m underwater.
I feel like I?m underwater.
Ab
I feel like I?m underwater.
Anyway.
Db2
Anyway.
Ab
There?s this building you pass
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On the subway to Queens.
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It?s on the L or the R or the one that?s green.
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It?s covered in tags,
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Bright hieroglyphics.
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These fifteen-year-olds ?
They?re so fucking prolific.
Db2
I?m commuting,
Db2
I?m eating my goddamn apple
And they?re secretly painting their Sistine Chapel.
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But whatever,
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It?s like they know their odds.
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If you're gonna die young,
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You'd better live like gods.
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Gods.
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Gods.
And me?
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I?m not doing anything.
Ab
I?m not helping or cleaning.
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I?m not even crying.
I?m not doing anything.
Ab4
She?d be so goddamn helpful.
Ab
Well, fuck her for dying ?cause I,
I?m not writing her elegy.
Ab2
Not me.
Ab
I?m not writing that down.
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They would scrawl her name on a city wall
Ab
But I?m a fucking clown.
Gb2
I?m making jokes
So I don?t drown.
Gb2
I feel like I?m underwater.
Ab
I feel like I?m underwater.
Gb2
I feel like I?m underwater.
Ab
I feel like I?m underwater.
Gb2
Like the whole world is underwater.
Ab
Like I?m screaming out underwater.
Gb2 Ab
I feel like I?m underwater these days.
Gb2 Db2
Anyways.
Anyway.
Db2
I didn?t expect to see you here.
I mean ? thanks for coming.
Gb2 Ab
I thought you?d oppose the use of religious rites as numbing.
Db2
I mean ? it is dumb.
Gb Ab
But what if she can hear them pray?
Gb2 Ab
I mean what the fuck do we know?
Ab
Who are we to say?
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If there was anyway.
Db2
Anyway.