Tom:
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you asked me why I love you and I said "I don't know"
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And I could tell you were disappointed
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With that answer so I carried on, said
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"I mean I've loved a lot of people in my life, or I thought I have
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I guess I've written them all off when they leave, or I leave them
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You know, because, that means, doesn't it
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That means that it couldn't have been love to begin with
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So why not just write it off?
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Sorry, that's not really answering your question
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I mean, I guess I thought I was so fucking smart when you met me
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When I was 23, I finally started to feel like a real person
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You know, a human being
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Kept the kind of secrets real people keep
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Told the kind of lies real people tell
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And most exciting of all
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I loved like I thought real people loved
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Never really staying anywhere
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Perpetually in the process of going somewhere
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I thought I was dark, and mysterious, and fucking irresistible
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Now I look back on 23-year-old me and I think
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Jesus Christ man, what a dick, what a leech
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Treating relationships like an ice cream factory
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Eating all I could handle and then throwing it all up and running away
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And yeah, I'm not 23 anymore, but I'm still me, and what's more
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I still want to run away sometimes, a lot of times, actually
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In that stupid little way I do where I lock myself in my room
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And I watch strangers play video games
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'Till my brains start to leak all over the sofa
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And I get high, and I write, and I sing
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And I hope it still sounds good when I'm sober
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I guess I'm scared that I'm imaginary
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That I invent myself every day, so other people don't have to
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That who I really am is secondary to what I want everyone else to see
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And I'm scared that I'm crazy
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But, God help me, I'm twice as scared I'm sane
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'Cause then what excuse do I have for treating
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People like problems that need to be solved or explained?
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And that's where you come in
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You came along, you taught me that people cannot be explained
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That we are all ghost stories at the end of the day
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And maybe we should just aim to stay that way
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Maybe there's a reason why we do the
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Wonderful, horrible things we do to each other
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But the reasons are too simple to be satisfying
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And then we're left forgetting and re-mystifying each other
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'Cause we don't really wanna
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Understand what makes us hurt each other
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No, we don't really wanna understand what makes us hurt each other
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Ah no, we don't really wanna understand what makes us-
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To answer your question, I love you
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Because I have to
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There is no 'why' about it
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Anymore than there's a reason why water vapor gathers in the sky
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Or why the nettles in the garden don't go away
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No matter how much the guy downstairs tries to keep them at bay
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There is no 'why' about it
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There is a 'how', I suppose, don't really understand it though
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Maybe if I dug around a bit in the soil
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I'd find out where all this love comes from and what it's for
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But then the question would be answered
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Ghost story would be over
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There'd be very little point in telling it anymore
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Right now, I'm happy just to let it be
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Let you be you and me be me
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Sleep 'til noon and watch TV
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Make schemes together
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Try not to keep secrets from each other
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I just hope to God that we are right when we say
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'I love you'
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I love you
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I just enjoy being around you
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I don't think I'm going anywhere
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