You're obsessed with finding a new brain
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But what you need is a new body
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It feels your brain has lived a thousand lives before
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And the skin you call your home
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Holds a heart that quits and knees that buckle in
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And lungs that can't breathe when they're alone
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And the days come to you like sailors
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You watch them as they drift away
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They meet the sunrise out at the horizon
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And it's neither sink nor swim
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At least the water's beneath your chin
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There's blood spilled on the floor
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Everyone's staring at you
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What for?
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Till you realize the blood is probably yours
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You feel you've lost something
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You want it back
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You're lying motionless on your back
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And your legs aren't taking anymore requests
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Those disobedient wrecks
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How you cared for them as they carried you
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From class to class and coast to coast
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When you owned land and when you were broke
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Through recessions and addictions
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It's just your accidental death
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Your accidental death
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It's just your accidental death
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You're the Indian in the cougar's nest
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Your fright gives way to memory
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Having coffee with your love
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or the story your father told you long ago
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He was hunting with his own father
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for deer, he pointed and spotted her
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and then tripped over some roots or some dead trees
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The gun went off, It was a mistake
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And my father was only eight
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And as he watched the dying deer he was changed
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Cause he felt sorry for what he'd done
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And he put down his gun
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Will you feel sorry for what you've done?
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Will you put down your gun?
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It's just your accidental death
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Your accidental death
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But there's no accidental death
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When you're the Indian in the cougar's nest
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It's just your accidental death
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Your accidental death
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It's just your accidental death
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You're the Indian in the cougar's nest
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Accidntel Deth
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| Rilo Kiley |
