They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win
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It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting
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They say that this is where the fun begins
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I guess it's time that I was quitting
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A slight figure of speech
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I cut my chest wide open
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They come and watch us bleed
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Is it art like I was hoping now?
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They said "I hope that you will never change"
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I went and cut my hair
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They say "Don't take your business to the big time"
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I bought us tickets there
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A slight figure of speech
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I cut my chest wide open
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They come and watch us bleed
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Is it art like I was hoping now?
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What did you expect
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And what did you forget
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That to live you let go of me with each step
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It becomes a progression I won't let regret manifest
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To aggression
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Are you to assess what I've been? What I am? Or become?
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Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb
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It can be to
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Attack those around 'cause you're
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True to color, a town, a time, or a place?
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It's not you, it's not mine
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And besides it is gone
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And you never will find it again
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But I don't want to fight
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I just ask let me be
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I won't give the chance to be my enemy
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So go home
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Think it through
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A jet plane and a big idea
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I jump over the sea
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What ifs hot on my trail
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But that can't catch me, no
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A slight figure of speech
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I cut my chest wide open
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They come and watch us bleed
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Is it art like I was hoping now?
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Slight Figure Of Speech
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The Avett Brothers |