Intro
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[Verse]
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I will do your interview
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Try to explain what I'm going through
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Give you something to read into in a million different ways
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G sick version of telephone starts at the clip of the microphone
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G game we thought we had all outgrown, but still everybody plays
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Ignoring all of the remedies, believing all of the rumors
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With their endless database
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I wanna sit with my enemies and say, "we should have done this sooner"
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While I look them in the face
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Maybe that will crack the case
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I got a friend who's been thinking 'bout finally kicking her husband out
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His second life as a talent scout, finally got him caught
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While she was throwing out all his clothes she heard a voice from beyond the throes
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"Punish him for the life he chose, but forgive the past that he did not."
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It's really hard to hate anyone once you know what they've lived through
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And once they've given you a taste
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She said, "This is for you to overcome, but I will always love you,"
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In her perfect state of grace
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Maybe that will crack the case
[Refrain]
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[Verse]
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Now that we're through with formalities
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What is it you want to ask of me?
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I'll answer open and honestly
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Whatever that means
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Finding out that we occupy
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Somebody else's opposing side
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On the banks of some great divide, two versions of a dream
[Chorus]
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Countless revisions of history trying to tell us the future
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Between each commercial break
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I wanna call off the calvary
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Declare no winners or losers
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And forgive our shared mistakes
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They can pick the time and place
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Maybe that will crack the case