i checked in a room today
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up above the downtown market bricks
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right now a boy gets old
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a boy gets bitter
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a boy learns not to trust
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someone inside his room
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the door locks tight
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you keep the door locked
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months went by and doors got kicked in
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two outlaws collecting what they loaned
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in a room beside my walls
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a girl gets choked
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she can't pay back the loan
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48 more hours to go
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"48 more hours" that's all they say
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in two more nights
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i hear a sound
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a shrill from one thin wall away
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every place is the same
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every day is the same
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every place is the same
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violent
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there's a conflicting sound
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hear the arguments loud
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everyday, the sounds of the
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violent violent violent
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i moved uptown a bit
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not much changed
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conflict is never gone
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but just as a calm sets in
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a police line barricades
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a place next door i asked
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around the lot a store
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clerk told me two young
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kids were shot mother
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was near the tracks dragged
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to where a train would go past
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Violent
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The Faint |