Key: B
Introduction:
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What I wanted was to fall asleep
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Close my eyes and disappear
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Like a petal on a stream, a feather on the air
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Lily white and poppy red
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I trembled when he laid me out
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You won't feel a thing, he said, when you go down
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Nothing gonna wake you now
Verse
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Dreams are sweet until they're not
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Men are kind until they aren't
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Flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart
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Is anybody listening?
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I open my mouth and nothing comes out
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Nothing
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Nothing gonna wake me now
Verse
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Flowers, I remember fields
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Of flowers, soft beneath my heels
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Walking in the sun
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I remember someone
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Someone by my side
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Turned his face to mine
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And then I turned away
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Into the shade
Outro
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You, the one I left behind
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If you ever walk this way
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Come and find me lying in the bed I made