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In the middle of the night I was sleeping sitting up,
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when a doctor came to tell me, "Enough is enough."
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He brought me out into the hall (I could have sworn it was haunted),
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and told me something that I didn't know that I wanted to hear:
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That there was nothing that I could do to save you,
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the choir's gonna sing, and this thing is gonna kill you.
Bm D
Something in my throat made my next words shake,
Bm D
and something in the wires made the lightbulbs break.
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There was glass inside my feet and raining down from the ceiling,
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it opened up the scars that had just finished healing.
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It tore apart the canyon running down your femur,
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(I thought that it was beautiful, it made me a believer.)
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And as it opened I could hear you howling from your room,
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but I hid out in the hall until the hurricane blew.
Bm D
When I reappeared and tried to give you something for the pain,
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you came to hating me again and just sang your refreain:
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You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare.
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You were just a little kid, and they cut your hair,
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then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying.
Bm D
They should have listened, they thought that you were lying.
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Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up,
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built the gears in your head, now he greases them up.
Bm D
And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating.
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"Eighty-seven pounds!" and this all bears repeating.
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Tell me when you think that we became so unhappy,
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wearing silver rings with nobody clapping.
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When we moved here together we were so disappointed,
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sleeping out of tune with our dreams disjointed.
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It killed me to see you getting always rejected,
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but I didn't mind the things you threw, the phones I deflected.
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I didn't mind you blaming me for your mistakes,
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I just held you in the doorframe through all of the earthquakes.
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But you packed up your clothes in that bag every night,
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and I would try to grab your ankles (what a pitiful sight.)
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But after over a year, I stopped trying to stop you from
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stomping out that door, coming back like you always do.
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Well no one's gonna fix it for us, no one can.
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You say that, 'No one's gonna listen, and no one understands.'
Bm D
So there's no open doors and there's no way to get through,
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there's no other witnesses, just us two.
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There's two people living in one small room,
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from your two half-families tearing at you,
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two ways to tell the story (no one worries),
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two silver rings on our fingers in a hurry,
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two people talking inside your brain,
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two people believing that I'm the one to blame
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two different voices coming out of your mouth,
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while I'm too cold to care and too sick to shout.
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You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare.
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You were just a little kid, and they cut your hair,
Bm D
then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying.
Bm D
They should have listened, they thought that you were lying.
A Asus2
Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up,
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built the gears in your head, now he greases them up.
Bm D
And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating.
Bm D
"Eighty-seven pounds!" and this all bears repeating.
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Published: 1 Dec, 2017
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2017-12-01 16:30:24
thank you so much for this lovely tab of a lovely song !! i've been looking for this
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