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Introduction:
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When the road has gone too far ahead and the hot summer air turns to fall
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And the sweet summer breeze fills with casualties on a boy who thought he'd been through it all
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And the lake how it looks like a storm, and the forest he knew it has trails that are worn
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Down by killers who come and they go, and the boy how he begs for the snow
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When the sun has hid behind the clouds and the beatings leave the boy's face and heart red
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So he cried out to space for a familiar face as he begs for sleep in his prison bed
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And his head fills with bullets and cars, and the dreams that he had feel as close as the stars
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Now the stars they laugh at his breath, since his screams were cut off by his death
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As his lungs fill with fire as he holds his breath so long his chest begins to sting
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As underwater legs run he is asked where it's from and he says "Just about everything"
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So he hides from the monster downstairs, and the one who was there when he cut his hair
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Though her words are like knives in his chest, the boy loves her and wishes her best
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As the songs that he heard from before fill his head with memories from all his past lives
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Make him cry make him sing make him miss everything that he had 'fore he wished he had died
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The blood on his fingers from his eyes stain the water around his goodbyes
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And he hates that he knows that he's nowhere to go 'cept the arms that he used to call home
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And the mask that he wears, it wears thin, as he fights through a war that he'll let the dark win
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Dripping hands run down bloody walls, and he cries oh how the mighty fall