You Avoid Parties chords by The Posies

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Verse 1
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Isn't it nice how things resolve
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To test your will would take
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the skill of crazy ants
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You fit your mind into smaller
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and smaller jars
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You find them clutching the last straw
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As if it's worth the worse for
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wear and tear you look
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But why try to understand someone
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that you don't even know
Even though he brought you up,
beat you up,
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Shut you up when you cried ?
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And now you avoid parties
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Because they remind you
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Of someone who you used to know
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Pretty soon you'll want to avoid yourself
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A popular phrase from the same year
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Would draw no tears save for
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the fears of looking back
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You find you hide for weaker
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and weaker reasons
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The battle you lost in the mirror
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Earned you no thanks but wooden
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planks  were soon withdrawn
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And you couldn't run
away even if you tried
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And you tried and you cried 'cause
you knew that laying flat
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In your parents' car
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And now you avoid father
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Because they remind you
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Of someone who you used to know
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Pretty soon you'll want to
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avoid your own
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And now you're finally on your own
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You draw your choices from the
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voices you despise
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You find you're drawn to tighter
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and tighter circles
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Flashbacks,flashes forward
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You are insane though you have
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gained such wide appeal
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And all the car rides, cheap insides,
laughter at the right people
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At the right time at the right line in
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the right frame of mind
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And now you avoid thinking
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Because it reminds you of
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someone you used to know
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Pretty soon you'll only think about yourself