| Well, I live too loud and I talk too much
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| But somehow I don’t see it as such
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| Seems like what I love the most
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| Is the sound of my own voice
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| I pray my list and I say my piece
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| I check you off but I’m incomplete
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| Seems like what I’m missing most
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| Is the sound of your voice
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| So why is it so hard for me
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| To shut my mouth and let you speak?
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| Why do I feel the need
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| To always keep on talking?
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| Well, I know I need to hear from you
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| I know what I have got to do
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| To find what I’ve been missing, yeah
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| I’ve gotta learn to listen
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| A wise man hears before he speaks
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| He knows he doesn’t know everything
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| I wish that sounded more like me
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| But I have got so far to go
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| But why is my first reaction
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| To give my own opinion?
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| Like I could tell you something
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| You don’t already know
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| So why is it so hard for me
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| To shut my mouth and let you speak?
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| Why do I feel the need
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| To always keep on talking?
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| Well, I know I need to hear from you
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| I know what I have got to do
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| To find what I’ve been missing, yeah
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| I’ve gotta learn to listen
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, listen, yeah
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, listen, yeah
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, listen, yeah
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| So why is it so hard for me
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| To shut my mouth and let you speak?
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| Why do I feel the need
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| To always keep on talking?
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| Well, I know I need to hear from you
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| I know what I have got to do
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| I gotta find out what I’m missing
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| So why is it so hard for me
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| To shut my mouth and let you speak?
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| Why do I feel the need
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| To always keep on talking?
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| Oh, I know I need to hear from you
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| I know what I have got to do
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| I gotta find out what I’m missing, yeah
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| I’ve gotta learn to listen
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, listen, yeah
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, listen, yeah
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, listen, yeah
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, listen, yeah
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, listen, yeah
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| Listen, listen, yeah, listen, to listen |