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| She didn't know that I'd be | hanging ar | ound |
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| It's just you and I and | this T | V |
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| And this illness seems to | feel so str | ange |
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| And the wait is waiting | ah |
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| Build a world so real and | str | ong |
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| Just a photograph and a | history b | ook |
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| And I believe she had a | voice and n | ame |
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| Three children on the | coast of M | aine |
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| Her life was in a | hurric | ane |
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| Of | love and | real em | brace |
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| My dream girl | don't ex | ist |
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| At the age of five she | slit her wr | ists |
| A | E | B | C#m | |
| She didn't know that I'd be | hanging ar | ound |
| A | E | B | C#m | |
| So one day she took a | stroll to t | own |
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| And walked in front of a | Greyhound | bound |
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| For New York | Central s | ta | aa | aaaa | aate |
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| And the wait is waiting | ah |
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