Goodbye circus wheel
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May you rest along the sea
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I have given you the fire of my youth
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And the triumph o're my enemies
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Goodbye fair weather home, and your faithless factories
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I have given you the blood and the truth
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from the wounds they laid onto me
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And whatever they left, well, I kept it for my own heart
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And the lonesome all understand
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With the choirs in my head
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And we were orphans before
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We were ever the sons of regret
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My baby
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And on and on and on
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the alphabet boys carry on
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We were orphans before
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We were ever the sons of these songs
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And now my lights, they never go down
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they waltz the moon and stars for me now
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So you can find some local libertine
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to take your daughters out on the town
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And I can feel it in my aging bones
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How the sound of the rain mixes up
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into the fountains where I drank my hero's blood
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So I left you to find my very own hat full of rain
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And the lonesome all understand
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With the choirs in my head
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And we were orphans before
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We were ever the sons of regret
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My baby
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And on and on and on
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the alphabet boys carry on
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We were orphans before
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We were ever the sons of these songs
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Now I'm trying to keep it straight
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Learning all the streets and the alleyways
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And learning where they lead
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Now that I'm left alone here to drive
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But it's so hard to stand on your own
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Against mirror of glass, hard and cold
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But the clothes I wore
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Just don't fit my soul anymore
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No the clothes I wore
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Just don't fit my soul anymore
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And the lonesome all understand
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With the choirs in my head
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And we were orphans before
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We were ever the sons of regret
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My baby
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And on and on and on
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the alphabet boys carry on
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We were orphans before
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We were ever the sons of these songs
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When we were young
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We were diamond Sinatras
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Like something I saw in a dream
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We kept our secrets in rooms
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locked up tight like a tomb
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Where the ballerinas lay
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Orphans
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| The Gaslight Anthem |
