| Apologies to future mes and yous
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| But I can’t help feeling like we’re through
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| The ripping of the tape hurts my ears
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| In my years, I have never seen anyone quit quite like you do
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| Twin bruises on my shins
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| From where I kicked the back of the seat in
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| They meant what I went through for you
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| But now they’re fading, now they’re gone
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| (Don't spend too much time on it)
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| These teenage hands
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| Will never touch yours again
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| But I remember you, you had a body
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| You had hands and arms and legs and et cetera
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| Did I fail? |
| Did I fall?
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| (In the morning when I wake up, are you mine?)
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| Did I waste my time, waste my time on a broken heart?
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| (Take the trash out like a bad dream, are you gone?)
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| Or is this the start of the great silence?
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| (From the old house, the fiercest heart spoke, are you mine?)
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| Is this the start of every day?
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| (Christmas tree’s dead, you know how time flies, are you gone?)
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| I’m not gonna end up a nervous wreck
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| Like the people I know who are nervous wrecks
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| Though I’m not gonna name names
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| (Yours was an exception)
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| Did the sound just stop?
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| At the end of every day
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| There’ll be nothing left to say
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| There’ll be no backstage pass
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| We gotta go back
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| Don’t get too impressed
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| You might lose your breath
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| Don’t predict your death
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| 'Cause I like you the best
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| Don’t you fall apart
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| You might lose my heart
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| You know I love your art
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| The ocean washed over your grave
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| The ocean washed open your grave
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| The ocean washed over your grave
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| The ocean washed open your grave
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| The ocean washed over your grave
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| The ocean washed open your grave
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| The ocean washed over your grave
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| The ocean washed open your grave
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| The ocean washed over your grave
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| The ocean washed open your grave
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| The ocean washed over your grave
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| The ocean washed open your grave
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| The ocean washed over your grave
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| The ocean washed open your grave…
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| So descend into cliché
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| If you’ve found your holy grail
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| I could fill back in that grave
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| I could hammer in that nail
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| I could give you what you want
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| I could give you what you deserve
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| I could sing another song
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| I could watch that hammer swerve
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| And when the mirror breaks
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| I wouldn’t miss it for the world
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| Call it blackstar, call it painstar
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| The same thing happens when you touch it
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| Did they tell you what happens when you touch it?
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| Let me tell you what happens when you touch it…
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| Let me, let me, let
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| Let me
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| Let me
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| So descend into cliché
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| If the music has forsaken you
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| Roll the stone over the grave
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| I never liked that one anyways
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| Or stare into the face
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| Of whatever it is that’s facing you
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| And if the levee breaks
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| You’ll find out what it is that’s replacing you
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| And when the mirror breaks
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| I wouldn’t miss it for the world
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| Call it blackstar
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| Call it painstar
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| The same thing happens when you touch it
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| Did they tell you what happens when you touch it?
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| Did they tell you what happens when you touch it?
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| Did they tell you
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| Did they tell me
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| What happened to you?
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| (It'll take some time
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| But somewhere down the line
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| We won’t be)
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| Love never fails
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| But where there are prophecies, they will cease
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| where there are tongues, they will be stilled
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| where there is knowledge, it will pass away
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| For we know in part and we prophesy in part
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| but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
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| When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child,
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| I reasoned like a child. |
| When I abandoned my childhood
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| I put these ways behind me.
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| For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;
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| then we shall see face to face.
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| Now I know in part; |
| then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known
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| And now these two remain |