Selective Memory's Become chords by Clemente

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The

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stories I've repeated around you,
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the exaggerations that
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you've sat through,
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The endless songs I've written for you
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Each claimed to have been
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in the name of truth
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Acts of control in a festival
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An assumption in
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an order I place for you
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I've tried everything short of
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writing your diary, yeah
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Never asking to sit down
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and hear it from you
But now we're to the point
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where there's no reasoning with
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what can't be undone
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Oh, how convenient a selective
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memory is to have
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A  misuse of mercy, oh,
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he must be twisted
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To have moved you there
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with such interest vested
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Discouraged and without much
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sense of purpose
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But I'm jealous cause
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while sporadic
At least that love can still surface
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But now we're to the point
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where there's no reason when
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It can't be undone
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Oh, how convenient our selective memor
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ies have become
You're in some heated pool
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on New Year's Eve
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And I'm sitting here without a bite to eat
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I won't make this long,
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it'll only be brief
I know how anxious you get for me
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to finish these things
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But sometimes when we speak slowly
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We're only slowly hoping
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The struggle and through sentences
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Encourage the other to
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finish them but it don't
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Oh, finish them but it don't
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Finish them but you won't
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Oh, finish them but you don't
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Finish them but you won't
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Oh, finish this, but you won't
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Finish them, but you won't
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Oh, finish them, but you won't
But now where's the point
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Where there's no reasoning with
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What can't be undone
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Oh, how convenient are
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selective memories
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How convenient are
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selective memories
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How convenient are se
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lective memories
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