You know me
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I used to get caught up in everyday life
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Trying to make it through my day so I could sleep at night
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Trying to figure out my way through the maze of rights and wrongs
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But like you used to say
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Nothing feels like it's really worth it
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Forget perfect / I'm trying not to be worthless
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Since I last saw you I've been looking for a purpose / well
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I met this kid who thought like I did
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He had a weird way of looking at it
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This is what he said
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Slip out the back before they know you were there / and
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At the worst you'll see nobody cares
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'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
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Even heroes know when to be scared
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Now / I don't remember where I met him
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Or remember his name
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But he walked funny like he was just too big for his frame
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Just over five foot / but he weighed a buck fifty
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And what he said seemed so right it stuck with me / listen
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It's like poker / you can play your best
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But you gotta know when to fold your cards and take a rest
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And know when to hold your cards / hold your breath and
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Hope that nobody else is stacking the deck / because
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I don't need to tell you that life isn't fair
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It doesn't care
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It arbitrarily cuts off your air
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And like you / I want someone to say it's okay
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In the truest part of our hearts everybody's afraid / we're just
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Underappreciated and overwhelmed
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Fighting so hard to hide our fear that we're scaring ourselves
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You understand what I'm saying / cause you always did
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But it's different in the words of a cowardly kid
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And I'm no hero
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You remember how it was / you know
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All I ever did was worry / feeling out of control
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To the point where everything was going end over end
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I'm spinning around in circles again
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This is where you come in
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All of this to explain to you why I had to
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Separate myself away from yesterday's life
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Please remember
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This isn't how I hoped it would be
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But I had to protect you from me
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That's why I
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Slipped out the back before you knew I was there
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I know you felt unprepared
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But every single time I was around I'd just bring you down
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And I could tell that it was time to be scared
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That's why I
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Slipped out the back before you knew I was there
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And I know the way I left wasn't fair
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I didn't wanna be around just to bring you down
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I'm not a hero
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But don't think I didn't care
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Slip Out The Back (Featuring. Mr. Hahn)
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Fort Minor |