| Once upon a time, there was a young boy
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| He grew up on the banks of the Mississippi
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| He wants to fly away to find his personal paradise
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| But first I give thanks and then finish my whiskey
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| I can’t explain why I feel so alone
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| When I’m surrounded by these people who won’t leave me alone
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| We used to treat the pain like an obstacle
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| Before we knew it offered opportunity to glue me to you
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| It’s a beautiful life, we tryin' to notice it
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| But it’s a difficult life, you gotta hold it in your fist
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| Like a knife, don’t ever bleed for vampires
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| Skeptical of suckers tryna feed my trash fire
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| If you got the time, you gotta make that impact
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| Bend up the bars and break out of the syntax
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| I keep running until I collapse
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| Until my time’s up and I don’t come back
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| Make time to have a good time
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| If you can’t find time, you might have to buy time
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| Take a timeout before you’re all out of time
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| It’s about time, don’t be wasting my time
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| Once upon a time, there was a young boy
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| He grew up on the bottom of the Twin Cities
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| We bothered everybody at the party
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| She could’ve been my Bobby, I probably was her Whitney
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| I’ll write a song for you, then write another one
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| I struggle just to keep it down to a couple of
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| Pages in the notebook, save you on a hard drive
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| What’s it gonna take to get your name in the archives?
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| And I pretend to do the sensible thing
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| But I’ve been swimming upstream ever since I could dream
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| And it don’t even seem like the line’s getting shorter
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| I need a drug that makes time move slower
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| I been complaining just a little too often
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| I should be thankful for these limited options
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| I got a full belly and something to cough on
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| Somebody tell me what the fuck is my problem?
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| Make time to have a good time
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| If you can’t find time you might have to buy time
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| Take a timeout before you’re all out of time
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| It’s about time, don’t be wasting my time
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| You know what time it is
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| You know what time it is
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| Time’s killing us, time’s killing us
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| We killing time and time’s killing us
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| Time’s killing us, k-killing us |