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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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True love is a rose behind glass
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That's locked and kept closed
Maybe just to me
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'Cause my heart's been attacked
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And shattered by tough
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love bad love
Verse 2
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So I bought mine off the street
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True love, man, it just can't be beat
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I felt so complete
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Married to heavenly bod
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ies above
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And each night I'd look up
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At a bright honey moon
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'Cause it
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sure seemed
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built to last
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And even after my honeymoon passed
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I kept right with it, man
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Like a ghost to a house it once
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haunted
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Verse 4
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And day after day
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I'd steal with my true love away
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To some hideout we're left undisturbed
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We could do what we wanted
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But I started to feel like a liar
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Saying I love you
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She was
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madly in love or mad mean
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There was no in between it raised my alarm
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I found I can't make a stand
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I'm her hired hand i have
to do harm
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Verse 6
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One day I got sick
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She played me a nasty old trick
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Said, "I need cigarettes"
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Walked 'round the block
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caught a cab
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Stayed gone for too long
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My love had gotten so strong
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Just to try being back on my own
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I had to go to rehab
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Verse 7
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All I need is a safe place to bleed
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Is this where it's at?
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Half of no chance
Steps in a dance
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Rest of my life spent in combat
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Now I'm the
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king of the ward
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'Cause I'm good and I swallow
my sword
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And puke it out for the doctor
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To write me a new prescription
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Tranquil as a dove
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People that have lost their true love
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They all seem to fit the same
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description
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I feel cold, useless and old
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I wish I was no one
Interlude 1
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Verse 10
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Take me up,
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my Lord take me up today
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Take me out of this place
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Take me up with you
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today
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