| Waiting up, your face is red
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| I’m drunk again and home at way past ten
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| «Your numbers on the wall», you said
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| That they meant something different in my head
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| And I would shout 'cause I believed
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| That you were way too hard on me
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| You would never give permission
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| I was sitting in the kitchen, crying
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| Papa, you would have been different
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| But you were doing more than nine-to-five
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| You get older and it hits ya
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| Seventeen, I was bitch to ya
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| But now I see the bigger picture
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| Packed a bag late one night
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| Walked out tall with water in my eyes
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| Called a cab and took a ride
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| Came back smaller, swallowing my pride
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| And I would shout 'cause I believed
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| That you were a missing part of me
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| You would never give permission
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| I was sitting in the kitchen, crying
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| Papa, you would have been different
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| But you were doing more than nine-to-five
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| You get older and it hits ya
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| Seventeen, I was bitch to ya
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| But now I see the bigger picture
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| I thought life was made for me
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| A hundred things I couldn’t see
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| Thought I was cool and you were mean |
| But I was so naive
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| 'Cause you would never give permission
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| I was sitting in the kitchen, crying
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| Papa, would have been so different
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| You were doing more than nine-to-five
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| You would never give permission
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| I was sitting in the kitchen, crying
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| Papa, you would have been different
|
| But you were doing more than nine-to-five
|
| You get older and it hits ya
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| Seventeen, I was bitch to ya
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| But now I see the bigger picture |