Always been horseblinded
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Could never see
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Past the two shades on the periphery
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I ask you for mercy
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And beg clemency
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But something I'm feeling is sticking with me
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When you're all alone
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And I am not around
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I know that you think me
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As cold as the ground
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I don't play accordion, we disagree
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But something I'm thinking is sticking with me
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If this ain't by the book then the book must be wrong
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And maybe it is what you hoped all along
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Now you didn't think I would go quietly
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When something about you is sticking with me
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This person I've been wasn't me I surmise
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You know me too well
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You'd see through a disguise
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Someone must have cloned a facsimile
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And it bears repeating "sticking with me"
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They're cutting the bull
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And they're drinking its blood
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Show me a patriot
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Show me a scud
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And that's about all I can get from TV
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and there's still this feeling sticking with me
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If this ain't by the book then the book must be wrong
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Can't we sleep in
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You can wake me at dawn
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We'll start us a regular royal dynasty
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So long as you are only sticking with me
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By the Book
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Michael Penn |