Key: D
Introduction:
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Our friends on the front porch telling jokes and they swing
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Swiftly towards happier times
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Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and
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Getting distance from that front porch spotlight
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But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see the monsters rise
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Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams living high on
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Yesterday's lie
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Talking to me about some 0% interest and how she got a better
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Deal than the next guy
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And the way the lightning shocked us when we were lost and
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Looking down that long missouri highway your hair was longer
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Then and now i remember
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Oh the roads unencumbered by cats they're burning like wet
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Matches thru my miracle mile mind
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You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems but
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Mine only brushes your soft surface
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And somehow it leaves me listless, my tongue curls under my lips
Oh yes
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So i cant speak to tell you of the months before i met you
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And the way the truth it locked us right about the time after
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The lightning shocked us
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When we were young and missing
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Round that small new england byway our lives they were sheltered
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Then and now i remember
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Well its not even being about that anymore i gotta get you down
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Those tiny fragments of perfection they please me in a time
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Unchanged when its not the same beginning
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Or along awaited end.. if i knew all the words i would write
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Myself out of here
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If i was all the colors i would paint you pretty in gold in a
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Picture so i'm told little sister
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So now i'm sold little sister why don't you tell me about the
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Sunsets in sweden and the laws of eden
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And how you were the rock of gibraltar and how they called you
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Foxy
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Well that's another whole box of pandoras, that's another whole
Box of them ties
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Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the
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Median
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It separates our house from the middle of the street.. talking
About our house
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Is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly
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Towards happier times
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Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and
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Getting distance from that front porch spotlight
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But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster
Die.
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We all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough
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And just so long.
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Long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it
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Long enough?
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Is it long enough for me? long enough for me to chew on.
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If it isn't.. if it is't .. if it is't .. if it ain't if it don't if it can't
Then it wont.