Back, back, back
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In the back of your mind are you learning an angry language?
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Tell me, boy
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Boy
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Boy, are you tending to your joy, or are you just letting it vanquish?
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Yeah, back, back, back
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In the dark of your mind where the eyes of your demons are gleaming
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Are you mad
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Mad
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Mad about the life you never had
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Yeah, even when you are dreaming?
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Who are these old, old, old people in these nursing homes
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Just scowling away at nothing?
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Like big rag dolls
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Just cursing at the walls and pulling out all of their stuffing
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Yeah, every day is a door leading back to the core
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Yes, old age will distill you
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And if you're this, this, this full of bitterness now
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Some day it will just fill you
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When you sit right down in the middle of yourself
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You're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair
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So renovate your soul before you get too old cuz you're gonna be housebound there
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When you're old you fold up like an envelope and you mail yourself right inside
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Yeah, and there's nowhere to go except out, real slow
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Are you ready, boy, for that ride?
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Your arrogance is gaining on you, and so is eternity
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You better practice happiness
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You better practice humility
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Yeah, you took the air
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You took the time
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You were fed and you were free
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You'd better put some beauty back, yeah, while you got the energy
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You'd better put some beauty back, yeah, while you got the energy
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Back, back, back
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In the back of your mind are you learning an angry language?
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Tell me, boy
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Boy
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Boy, are you tending to your joy, or are you just letting it vanquish?
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Yeah, back, back, back
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In the dark of your mind where the eyes of your demons are gleaming
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Are you mad
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Mad
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Mad about the life you never had
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Even when you're dreaming?
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| Ani DiFranco |
