Intro
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[VERSE]
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Between the cold drinks in the freezer
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And the latest tabloid rags
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A# voice screams over the music
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"Put the money in the bag!"
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No one ever hears his reason
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No one ever hears his name
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This is all happening right now
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Less than five miles away
[VERSE]
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A# shifty fortune teller
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Communion with the dead
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Lying about the astral plane
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So she can keep her children fed
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Listening to a mother sick with cancer
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Wondering what she's gonna say
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This is all happening right now
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Less than five miles away
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This is all happening right now
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Less than five miles away
[VERSE]
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There's a stranger in the bushes
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Looking through the windows of a home
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At a woman from the movies
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That's been living there alone
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She's home at seven in the evening
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He sees the code punched in the gate
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This is all happening right now
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Less than five miles away
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This is all happening right now
[BRIDGE]
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And it all looks so pretty from a distance
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How we're living out this story that we tell
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Baby we were both designed out in the cosmos
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As just a way of asking questions about itself
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[VERSE]
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You know the great writer that left us
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Well his house is still around
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Like an old dead volcano
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That sleeps over the town
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They're gonna turn it into condos
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They'll be done by New Year's Day
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This is all happening right now
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Less than five miles away
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This is all happening right now
[OUTRO]
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