So long my misery
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I don't need you, you've only caused me grief
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Forgive me if I fall asleep
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I haven't slept in centuries
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Daylight lives like a burden for me
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So I escape the sennit strewn about the street
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Beyond the ruins of my ancestry
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Far past the pages of my disbelief
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I rose from my moat, like a ghost from a grave
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Sunken in the salty eyes of the wanderin' displaced
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I was headed through the mists across the golden gate
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All of my rebellions fall into the fog of fate
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So long my misery
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I don't need you, you've only caused me grief
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Forgive me if I fall asleep
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I haven't slept in centuries
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Springtime came again and Icarus fell
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I flew past the numb-lipped nuns who never tell
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The secrets of the sailors and their seven year spell
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I will not fall nor will my wings ever melt
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If I could I would wash all these wounds away
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I would surround your room with sentiments of grace
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I would paint your portrait over everything mundane
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More colorful than Easter Sunday
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So long my misery.
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I don't need you, you've only caused me grief
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Forgive me if I fall asleep
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I haven't slept in centuries
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Put me on a boat, leave my inhibitions at bay
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My mind is spilling but I haven't much to say
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I was running through the canyons towards the echoes of your name
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You were laughing at me like sun laughs at a flame
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Put me on a page in a book of beginnings
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Let me scroll through old volumes of ancient teachings
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Let me revel in all of these forgotten feelings
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Lay me with the wretched in the arms of my queen
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So long sweet misery
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I don't need you, you've only caused me grief
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Forgive me if I fall asleep
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I haven't slept in centuries
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So long sweet misery
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I don't need you, you've only caused me grief
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Forgive me if I fall asleep
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I haven't slept in centuries.
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No, I haven't slept in centuries.
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I haven't slept in centuries
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So Long Sweet Misery
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Brett Dennen |