(Kristyn Osborn)
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This can't really be what life is all about
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Learning how to live Just to live without
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The travesty's the irony and the irony is you
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I've traded in my sanctity for a cheaper shade of blue
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And as I surrender to this sunken bed
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So afflicted by the tenant in my head
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Even now I wonder how you lay her down to sleep
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When secretly I know it's my soul that you pray to keep
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But will you really keep me
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Chorus:
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(Keep me)
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On your porch, on your tongue
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Beating in your chest, or coming undone
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Folded neatly in the cover of your favorite book
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(Keep me)
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At a distance, in your maze
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Fumbling through a contemplative haze (keep me)
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Or tucked away clandestinely where no one else will look
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Where my broken sky reaches to your velvet sea
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Will you keep me
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Drowning in the bottom of this empty glass
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I pray god is good and that this too shall pass
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Then from the abyss maybe I'll find a sweet reprieve
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When the echo of your kiss reminds me to believe
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That you'll always keep me
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Chorus:
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(Keep me)
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Under god, or on your wall
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Behind closed doors forever after all
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Or headed south on the blacktop ribbon we designed
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(Keep me)
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The mantle of integrity, investing in
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Something I'll never see (keep me)
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At 30,000 feet or in the windows of your mind
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In a corner of your heart under lock and key
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Will you keep me
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Keep me (page 2)
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Bridge:
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Traipsing on hallowed ground
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Has brought a lifelong sentence
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Now living without your breath to fill
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My lungs will be my penance
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And even as I feel I hope you feel it Just as deeply
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And even though you've let me go, say you'll always keep me
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Say you'll always keep me
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chorus:
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The melody you miscontrue
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On the ocean crashing into you
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Or waiting for the man you'll never
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Have the heart to be
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In the fervent strains of the tragic elegy
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Will you keep me
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Will you keep me
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Will you keep me
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Keep Me
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| Shedaisy |
