You're not unlucky, you're just not very smart.
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These things will never leave you ? they're as close as you can get
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To a blueprint for the future ? but you can call it fate.
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It's like these days I have to write down almost every thought I've held,
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So scared I am becoming of forgetting how it felt,
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And these fears they will unravel me one day,
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But still I am afraid.
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But I'm blessed-
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More or less, more or less-
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Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left.
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Now you're blessed amongst all women,
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Now a man who's very good,
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He tells you how you feel until your life is understood,
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And he leads you through it arm in arm as though
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There was a map to guide the way.
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Now you write because you love him, now you write because he's kind,
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You write so much, you look up and you wrote yourself behind,
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And you're standing in a labyrinth of paper and the map has been erased.
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But you're blessed-
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More or less, more or less-
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Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left.
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Are you blessed?
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More or less, more or less?
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Now you're standing in the afterglow of rapture,
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but there is no rapture left.
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Oh come, and we will celebrate the things that make us real,
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The things that break us open, the things that make us feel
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Like these accidental meetings up and partings of the way
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Are not so much our choice but in the blood of how we're made,
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It's like the way I have to write down almost everything I see,
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So that the record does obscure the thing the record used to be,
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And I know I'm not unlucky,
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I was just born this way.
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But I'm blessed.
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Now a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisles,
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The baby born with teeth looks at its mother and it smiles,
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And we all fall down
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Like wind blows through the paper forest.
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And a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisle
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Alarm clock fingers turn they're counting seconds like they're miles
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And you say, "Wake up now, 'cause I can see no paper forest."
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Paper Forest (In The Afterglow Of Rapture)
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Emmy the Great & Tim Wheeler |