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"I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks"
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Some bumper sticker wisdom while you're walking the plank
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
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The illusion of protection in the face of a tank
[Chorus]
Em
You were a student
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You were a soldier
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You were a symbol
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They made you a martyr
[Verse 2]
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
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When the nationalist demagogues eat the desperately confused
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
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We're so far past civility it feels useless to argue
[Chorus]
Em
But love isn't passive
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B trick or a tactic
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Tried to call action
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So, go let 'em have it
[Bridge]
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When I open my perspective from my fear of the world
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For the daughter I was trying to raise
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With the total sum of everything asleep in my lap
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I could hear I was the one in my way
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You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
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[Verse 3]
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
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You said acceptance and forgiveness, I said nobody asked you
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me now
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I have to drop it sometime, but I hate that I have to
[Chorus]
Em
Oh, but it saved me
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Oh, but it changed me
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It shaped and remade me
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Oh, what it gave me
[Bridge 2]
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I was burned out on obsessing with the end of the world
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And the daughter I was helping to raise
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With the total sum of everything awake in my lap
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I could hear what you were trying to say
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You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
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You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
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You said life is sweet, if I let it be
[Outro]
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
D G D
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
D G D
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
D G D
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks