| I can’t tell if this is real or if I am sleeping
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| I’ll embroider the truth
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| And that’s so I shall reap
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| I took things that didn’t belong to me
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| I didn’t mean to do you wrong
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| Looking back on all that stolen time
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| Back when I was drinking turpentine
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| Don’t blame me
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| I only took you in
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| It takes time to do the poisoning
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| So let’s close the door on this and lock it
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| And that’s all it will ever be
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| Just an accident of chemistry
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| You did everything to me but stopped short of murder
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| Couldn’t move me much closer to keeping my word
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| While the crowds threw stones at the hangman
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| The sky fell down
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| The bells rang
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| Looking back on all that stolen time
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| Back when I was drinking turpentine
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| Don’t blame me
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| I only took you in
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| It takes time to do the poisoning
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| So let’s close the door on this and lock it
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| And that’s all that it will ever be
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| Just an accident of chemistry
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| Airless shaft of an underground railway
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| Effete assassin with a hawk in a sack
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| The earth will offer us in when our hearts fail
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| As it swallowed the river running under the track
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| Under the track yeah
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| I can’t tell if I’m dreaming or if I’ll awaken
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| With a song in my heart that is longing to break
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| Let it out and let it fly high
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| Up where the spires scrape the sky
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| Looking back on all that stolen time
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| Back when I was drinking turpentine
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| Don’t blame me
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| I only took you in
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| It takes time to do the poisoning
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| So let’s close the door on this and lock it
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| And that’s all that it will ever be
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| Just an accident of history
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| Yeah
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| Airless shaft of an underground railway
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| Cute assassin with a hawk in a sack
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| The earth will offer us in when our hearts fail
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| Swallowed the river running under the track
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| That’s right |