Her haircut, she looked virtually naked
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In that dress growing ever tighter
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It was saddening the lengths she had gone to
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To appear more attractive
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In the process losing something
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We never knew but still missed
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You knew you were lost as soon as you saw her
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You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps
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Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally
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Together you squirmed and wriggled
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And I could only jerk along behind
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Chorus:
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They're going to hurt you
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They always will
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She is now with me, inside of you
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And I could only stare wide-eyed
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As everything closed in around the three of us
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Things you never saw, talking of the power and rescue
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The blood rushing through our body,it was good
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(Chorus)
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She opened the door his face bruised and swollen
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Before he knew, pushed, falling down curved stairs
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Our message lost and our plans forgotten
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Surrounded by men in suits, and black shiny shoes
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Moving in, kicking, stamping
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Bland expressionless faces
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A handful of marbles thrown in a dustbin
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Memories, memories
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(Chorus)
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In a northern town there were amazing [ ? ] stones arranged on the southern
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slope
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They got out in the last few seconds of consciousness
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Look for their inscriptions one day, the most distant ocean plains, those who
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make the desert island
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I saw you in a tin bath in red water
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Were the ones who went to Washington to do their laundry
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They wanted to see the mysterious hurricane
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I never believed in New York, or where you intended to stand
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But we don't actually want to see the shipwrecked
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I just had to go
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They came
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Marbles
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Tindersticks |