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You have a mythological beauty
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You have the eye of someone I have seen
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Outside of ordinary situations
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Even outside of dreams
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You lie in bed at night and watch the lines of headlights through your screen
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There is a child inside you who’s trying to raise a child in me
[Chorus]
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IF you wanna leave
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You just have to say
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You’re all Caught up inside
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But you know the way
[Verse 2]
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You cut the Flesh of your left thumb
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Using your boyfriend’s knife
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Seventeen, you took his cum
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And you Gave birth to your First liFe
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You Gave Andrew a Family who you thought would love and take better care
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I have an older brother I don’t know He could be anywhere
[Chorus]
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If you wanna leave
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You just have to say
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You’re all caught up inside
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But you know the way
[Verse 3]
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Rented a house in Niswah, Minnesota
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Shrapnel and oil cans, rhubarb in the yard
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I built a ladder out of metal pieces
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Father was working hard
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Standing beneath the oak tree by the front door You were inside baking bread
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Sister came out and put her arms around me, Blood gushing from my head
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You held me in the backseat with a dishrag, soaking up blood with your eyes
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I was just five and you were twenty-seven, Praying “don’t let my baby die”
[Chorus]
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If you wanna leave
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You just have to say
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You’re all caught up inside
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But you know the way
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You’re all caught up inside
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But you know the way