I need to be alone tonight,
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This city and her streets,
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A cardboard sign reads help me
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And I walk on,
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And I run.
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I touch you and you feel me,
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I'm a river, I'm burning, I'm a thief,
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I leave you and your skin and your beauty,
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I leave you and your beauty and your teeth.
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Can you see this blaze flared up,
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From the spark of you,
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Now this trick I've played makes me your slave,
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I'll burn you out, I'll start again.
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I saw my name in your hand,
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I turned around and ran,
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But to you or from you it's all the same,
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To you or from you it's the same thing.
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He says we're all alone,
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He builds himself a home,
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He builds it out of hair and teeth and fingernails and bones,
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He hides it in his heart,
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Then he tears it all apart,
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He plasters all the pieces up with glue and calls it art,
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He's a man with two left shoes,
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He's a pretty cockatoo,
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His song is full of sadness but he's beautiful in blue.
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I need to be alone tonight,
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Alone tonight.
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Build a home
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Lauren Hoffman |