| When they ask me whether you mean more to me Than moving pictures on a T.V. screen
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| Am I supposed to say
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| That I was young when you left and you don’t keep in touch these days,
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| Or that the bottle had it’s say and took you away?
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| I wonder if you know your family misses you so The hardest lessons learned
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| No matter where you go, no matter where you go Are the ones you learn alone
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| And last time I saw you,
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| There was a stranger in the skin of someone I once knew,
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| Someone that I thought was stronger than addiction and decay.
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| You are the one who got away,
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| And now we’re forced to stand by helpless
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| And watch you sinking like your coast in the pacific waves.
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| And I would call even though you won’t pick up To hear your voice like a ghost on the machine,
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| «This is the home of someone you do not know,
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| A past life you never wanted to leave.»
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| I wonder if you know your family misses you so The hardest lessons learned
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| No matter where you go, no matter where you go Are the ones you learn alone
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| I wonder if you know
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| It’s like the time that I burnt my hands on Pop’s lit cigarette.
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| You held me in your arms and said that the pain was something I’d forget.
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| Now that you’re running away from the bed you made yourself I wonder
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| If there is something I could say to take your pain away.
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| And I wonder if you know your family misses you so The hardest lessons learned
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| No matter where you go, no matter where you go Are the ones you learn alone |