Key: D
Introduction:
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I cut corners on the carpets now.
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I danced quarters on the windowsill.
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The summer left me to a different fate.
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This drastic urge will take some time to find its weight.
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I run head on into traffic in the afternoon.
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I log the longest miles alone at night inside my room.
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Where all directions lead right back to me
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all my ambitions swim like driftwood through
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my dark sea of sleep.
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And it'll take some time, Yeah it will take some time
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but the dawn will come,
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yeah the tide will rise.
Intro 2
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Her eyes swelled up in the bars of soft lights.
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I drank and watched her laugh and then we sang out loud in the dying streets
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And I was so drunk my heart floated like a feather in the breeze.
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I got so high off all the blinking lights, the colors painted in the night.
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Midsummer Classic blue and gold- Our City casts it's shadow.
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The kettle boil heads for a roll. Sundowning's never getting old.
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And underneath this crooked moon I can smell the night begin to bloom,
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the northern wind will change again and my geography will bend
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back and forth across the map until I reach the end.
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back and forth across the map until I reach the end.
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And it'll take some time, And it'll take some time
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But the dawn will come-
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yeah the tide will rise.