| The sky goes from concrete to charcoal.
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| I’m laying on my back on the roof.
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| I’m gonna shoot these clouds full of holes.
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| I need some fucking light to pour through
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| Because December’s got me up against the ropes.
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| And I don’t know how to get loose.
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| I can’t get feeling back in my toes.
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| I’m walking in circles with you
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| Like we’re lost Canadian geese.
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| I should be south of here already.
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| I’ll be your dead bird.
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| You’ll be my bloodhound.
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| You’re just doing what you’re told;
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| Pick my body off the ground.
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| I’ll be your dead bird.
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| I’m staring at Hemingway’s shotgun.
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| I picture him drinking alone.
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| He’s forgetting things that he wouldn’t have before.
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| His eyesight’s starting to go.
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| And I heard all about how his plane went down after Christmas in the Congo.
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| He read about his own death in the paper.
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| I bet it was freeing to know.
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| When you destroy anything worth chasing,
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| There’s nowhere left to go.
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| I’ll be your dead bird.
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| You’ll be my bloodhound.
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| You’re just doing what you’re told;
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| Pick my body off the ground.
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| I’ll be your dead bird.
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| Hanging from your mouth.
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| You’re doing what you’re told;
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| Gonna make your master proud.
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| It’s good to know
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| I didn’t die for nothing.
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| December’s got me backed into a corner again.
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| My ears are back.
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| My teeth are showing.
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| I’m combing through the wreckage trying to find where I’ve been.
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| I still get phantom pains,
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| But from a safer distance.
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| I’ll be your dead bird.
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| You’ll be my bloodhound.
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| You’re just doing what you’re told;
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| Pick my body off the ground.
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| I’ll be your dead bird.
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| Hanging from your mouth.
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| You’re doing like you’re told;
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| Gonna make your master proud.
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| It’s good to know
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| I didn’t die for nothing.
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| December’s got me backed into a corner again.
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| My ears are back.
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| (I didn’t die for nothing.)
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| My teeth are showing.
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| I’m combing through the wreckage trying to find where I’ve been.
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| I still get phantom pains,
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| I didn’t die for nothing. |