So
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You wanted
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That's what you get for wanting
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You got it
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That's what you get for getting
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Forgotten
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You're gardening a rotting bed
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Of raygun-era icons
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So
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Let's start it
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Let's start it
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From the minute you felt it
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You felt it like a prison
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A panic, you felt it
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Like that coffee scene
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From Moscow on the Hudson
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So
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...Be honest
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It's not as if you're happy about it
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It's not as if you're animatronic
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It's not as if you couldn't
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Cry out any time you wanted
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Olly olly oxen free
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All the people you will never be
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Olly olly oxen free
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Olly olly olly olly
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Olly olly olly olly
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Fate
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You call it
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You color it
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The color you want it
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You carpet it
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That's awful convenient
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You paint yourself a nice white room
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With stripes and matching curtains
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So
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You forfeit
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You cannot build a river across it
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You cannot hold your own heart hostage
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You do not have the strength
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To gag yourself in every closet
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The wrong place, wrong mind
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Timing's always bad
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You're such a sad case
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Misplaced renaissance
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Inventor of a worldwide
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Heartbreak, taking it in stride
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'Cause you're an expert
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Aren't you?
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Aren't you just a dime a dozen?
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Murderous monosyllabic moron
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With no sense of purpose
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Working on your songs all night
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To justify your worthlessness
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To anyone who's watching
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If they only saw your alter egos
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Pretty in the shop windows
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Where you got auctioned hours ago
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Olly olly oxen free
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All the people you will never be
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Olly olly oxen free
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olly olly olly olly
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Higher than the king can
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See no evil, hear no evil
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Capture me and throw the key
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See no evil, hear no evil
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Capture me and throw the key away
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Throw the key away
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So
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It's over
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You're lying in a coffin of clutter
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Your father and your sister, your drummer
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Are sorting through your Soft Cell tapes
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And lifesaver collection, and you wonder
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You wonder if you could've done better
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You wonder if you should've surrendered
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Before you learned that
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Nobody actually wants a fucking martyr
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Didn't you, didn't you, didn't
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Didn't you see?
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Didn't you, didn't you, didn't
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Didn't you see?
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Didn't you, didn't you, didn't
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Didn't you see me?
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Didn't you, didn't you, didn't
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Didn't you see me?
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Olly olly oxen free
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All the people you will never be
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Olly olly oxen free
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olly olly olly olly
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Higher than the king can
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See no evil, hear no evil
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Capture me and throw the key
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See no evil, hear no evil
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Capture me and throw the key away
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Throw the key away
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Throw the key away
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Olly Olly Oxen Free
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| Amanda Palmer |
