Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It is an early Monday morning.
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The sun is becoming bright on the land.
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No one is watching as he
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Two bulky suitcases hang
Verse 2
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He heads towards the tower
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that stands in the campus.
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He goes through the door,
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he starts up the stairs.
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The sound of his footsteps,
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the sound of his breathing,
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The sound of the silence when no
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Verse 3
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I didn't really know him.
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He was kind of strange.
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Always sort of sat there.
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He never seemed to change.
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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He reached the catwalk. He
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put done his burden.
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The four sided clock began
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to chime.
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Seven AM, the day is beginning.
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So much to do and so little time.
Verse 5
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He looks at the city where no
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one had known him.
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He looks at the sky where
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no one looks down.
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He looks at his life and what
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He looks for his shadow
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it cannot be found.
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He was such a moody child,
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Even as a baby he never smiled
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too much. No no.No no.
Verse 7
Your ugly, she said.
Please hug me, I said.
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When I'm home.
Verse 8
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he loaded the shotgun,
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He stacked up the cartridges
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along the wall.
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He knew he would need them
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If it went as it he planned,
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then he might use them all.
Verse 9
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He said Listen you people I've
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got a question
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You won't pay attention
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but I'll ask anyhow.
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I found a way that will
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get me an answer.
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Been waiting to ask you 'till now.
Verse 10
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I am a lover whose never been kissed.
Am I?
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How do I know I ex ist?
Are you listening to me?
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Am I?
Verse 11
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The first words he spoke took
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the town by surprise.
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One got Mrs. Gibbons above her right eye.
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wedged her against the door.
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Reality poured from her face,
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staining the floor.
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He was kind of creepy,
Sort of a dunce.
I met him at the corner bar.
I only dated the poor boy once,
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That's all. Just once, that was all.
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Bill
Verse 13
Whedon was questioned as
circle.
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In a dumb struck city his pointed
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questions were sprayed.
Verse 14
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He knocked over Danny Tyson as he
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ran towards the noise.
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Just about then the answers started comming. Sweet,
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sweet joy.
Thudding in the clock face,
whining off the walls,
Reaching up to where he sat there,
Verse 15
answering calls.
Yes, he was reaching them
right were they are.
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Verse 16
They set up an assault team. They
And the word spread about him on the
radios and TV's.
asked "Who can it be?"
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Verse 17
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he did not want to learn.
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No no.No no.
Verse 18
they don't want to let me
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Stay in the bright light too long.
goin to be soon now.
Verse 19
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Mama, won't you nurse me?
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Rain me down the sweet
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Won't you please make me warm
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andmindless?
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yes you have cursed me.
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I never will forgive you for your blindness.
Verse 21
The wires are all humming for me.
And I can hear them coming
for me.
Soon they'll be here,
but there's nothing to fear.
Not any more though they've
blasted the door.
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Verse 22
shouted "Who cares?" .
They could hear him laughing
as they started up the stairs.
blinking at the sun,
Verse 23
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You've given me my
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answer can't you see?
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I was!
I am!
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And now I will be
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