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Verse 1
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He played the game
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but he failed the test
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but he remembers the way of her hair
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and the shape of her breast
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he'll tell the world about it now
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in a traveling show
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like some kind of circus
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like some kind of circus
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like a monkey in a zoo
more dead than alive
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Verse 2
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Total abandon - that far away look
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where nothing seems to matter
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and nothing seems to cook
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but you know her, you love
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her; you gotta live without her
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he said I can't live without her
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she said too bad about that and left
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with the undertaker
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now he just sits at the piano
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I'll never grow up
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Verse 3
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He said what a babe
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you oughta see her
I got a picture
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and he whipped out his wallet
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he got a pathetic collage photo of him
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self in a fashion mall
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really sad - really sad
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Verse 4
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Well I climbed up a mountain
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and I dug myself a grave
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and the wild wind
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well it's my slave
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but it always blows me back again
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well the wild wind it's my friend
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it always blows me back again
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it was if my skull was bare
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and naked without
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a thought to share
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wind
and knocked me back
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alive again
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that I had been living against
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my will
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he's not being real that way
Interlude 1
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pulled up a coffin
Verse 5
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I turned on the radi o and
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the record on the radio kept skippin, skippin
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I said I pulled up a coffin
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I pulled up a coffin
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I pulled up a coffin
I walked up to this psycho
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logical man
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I said I got this problem about this coffin
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he said here's some cough drops
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such dumb jokes
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this is art - or is it art or is it smart
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or is it just my heart
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Verse 6
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have dried
little girl when everything was
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going great
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time to call up the in- crowd
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undead white zombie
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Verse 7
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Well he played that game
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but he failed the test
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be he remembers he remembers the way
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of her hair and the shape of her breast
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and he'll tell the world about
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it now in a traveling show
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like some kind of circus
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like some kind of circus
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like some kind of circus
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Outro 1
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