Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I've really
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got to clean up my room
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You know it's been so long
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since I've seen my floor
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It's getting kind of scary in fact I suspect
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That when I finally clear away I
Verse 2
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From those early days
with a fresh new start
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So in the end it won't matter at all
the rise and the fall?
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So I quietly lay back down
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Verse 3
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we tell ourselves
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designed to amuse
It's a game we play
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and we play it well
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that we try to lose
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So
Verse 4
we can keep hiding
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Gonna go outside an d drive
Verse 5
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I have resolved not to leave my house
my TV's here
Verse 6
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when I'll finally be done
start to have fun
It's getting hard lately to concentrate
All my appointments canceled
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You know I think I need a prison,
Verse 7
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we tell ourselves
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to amuse
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and we play it well
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that we try to lose
Verse 8
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So we can survive
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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Now weeks have gone by
and my room's not done
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In fact I could say that it's
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Amongst the crumpled letters
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the mood's quite perverse
Verse 10
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But I got a new TV with a remote control
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Styrofoam and instructions fill that hole
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To the bathroom, but I fear that a nail
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Is buried there now and I step very rarely
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Try not to get out of bed
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Verse 11
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You know tomorrow I'll get
up and I'll walk out my door
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And life will return to the way that it was
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But I think I'm getting sick
Verse 12
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So I'll sit right here till I'm old and gray
Verse 13
I get somewhat weaker
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Things could still work out for
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me as long as I'm not dead
As long as I'm not, as long as I'm,
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I'm not dead,
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I'm not dead, no I'm not dead,
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no I'm, I'm not dead, I'm not dead
Verse 14
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we tell ourselves
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to amuse
It's a game we play
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and we play it well
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we try to lose
Verse 15
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And keep on believing
Someday we'll go out
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side an d drive
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We're gonna go outside and drive
Verse 16
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I wonder if it's light outside
Outro 1
I wonder if it's raining
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF G C D Dm
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