Key: F major•
Intro 1
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I
Verse 1
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wake up early on Elec tion Day
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I've already voted,
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so I'm timewise ok
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And Göteborg feels like my head:
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slow, gloomy and grey
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Verse 2
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My train departs soon,
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we meet up at the station
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You just came in from Bergen,
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how are you Jens Lekman?
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I eye everyone, try to guess what they're
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voting for
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Verse 3
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And this is what we speak of: when you
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know someone likes you
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- as a friend or a lov
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er or a listener -
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you still don't know
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so you take a guess based
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on their appearance
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but people are always
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than you think,
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than you think that they are.
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she says she's a clair voyant
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She says "thanks for this Friday,
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I went to your concert
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I like you, cause I can tell you were a warrior
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in a past life."
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Verse 5
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On the train, I buy an apple
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It's so huge, it's astounding
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And I get so upset I'm by myself,
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I fight an urge to show the
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But she looks like a model,
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probably doesn't want to see it
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It's amazingly large,
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this ap ple! and I gram it
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But it gets very few likes
Verse 6
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And outside the window,
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the trees flaunt their shit
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And the fields, and the flowers,
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Behind me, two people in suits say climate
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Verse 7
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And I take my huge ap ple
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And I shove it down their throats
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I say: "that's not a top
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ic you can argue about
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It is what it is,
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it's not up for debate
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Do you really think I would be stuck
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on this train twelve hours today
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if it was optional?"
Verse 8
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That last part was I lie, I'm a pacifist
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But I enjoyed making that up,
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Lets not forgot I was a warrior in a
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Verse 9
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The results are like life
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on Election Day news:
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no one really won, an d all are confused
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It's quiet, but it feels like a bomb with
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a really long fuse.
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Verse 10
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And I like you cause you talk about
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the same things that I do:
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telling stories and TV,
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and being on tour
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It makes me feel like an extrovert
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An d that is nice for a change
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And I like me, because I always crash
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I wallow and complain,
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If a clairvoyant came
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up in a hundred years
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I think she would have said to me:
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"In your past life,
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you were lame but at least you tried.
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Now those fumes will choke
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you, so get inside."
Verse 12
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Now it's time to sleep on Election Day
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