Tom: G
Introdução:
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All the words in my mouth
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that the scene deemed unworthy of letting out
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banded together to form a makeshift militia
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and burrowed bloodily through my tongue and my teeth.
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I stood proud in the gallery
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With my open socket of a mouth for them to see.
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They all just laughed and said
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"That boy, he, that boy's got
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And this girl who I met
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Whose pride makes her hard to forget,
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She took pity on me horizontally
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But most likely because of my band.(hey)
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It's all I can get when I'm lonely
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And these visions of death seem to own me
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In the quiet of the classrooms
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All across the stacked United States of
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She said "I can't get laid in this town
D
Without these pointy fucking shoes.
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My feet are so black and blue and so are you."
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Please take me out of my body
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Up through the palm trees
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To smell California in sweet hypocrisy.
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Floating my senses surround my body.
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I wake my nose to smell that ocean burn.
A Am
So now I'm forging ahead
A D
Past all the plutocrats who sold me out.
A D
If life is twice as pretty once your dead
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Then send me a card.
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I'm still the optimist though it is hard
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When all you want to be
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Is in a dream.
A dream