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Introduction:
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So who was first
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Obviously not me
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She's locked up in - side herself
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And I can't get anything free
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So won't somebody tell me please
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Why the former owner al - ways keeps the keys
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There's no bubbles to burst
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No bursting out crying nor dying of thirst
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She's utterly tied to somebody else
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And it seems he got there first
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And no, I'm not un - tying
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The reins around her neck that she feels
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And I won't try to prise out of her the truth anymore
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When she lies about the things that she sees
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Because the former owner al - ways keeps the keys
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There's no calling
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Come here, you're necessary to me
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There's no ex - citement in her face when I im - plore
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Cor - rupt me and confess to me some more
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And when we hear trees falling
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Or see people disappearing
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Her e - motions won't be reached or re - leased
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Because the former owner is
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(keeping the keys)
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keeping the keys
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Like a ticket inspector
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running for a bus
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Irony's revenge sur - rounds us
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And it's i - ronic that he promised you
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he'd never let you go
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When he's left you used-up and dis - turbed
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And I said Just as the early bird catches the worm
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The early cat catches the bird
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But that former owner is keeping his word
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keeping his word