| I was gripped with a bitter fear
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| Worried the one thing that I loved
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| Back when I was just a kid
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| Might now never be enough
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| That the body I was in Might belong to someone else
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| Someone kinder, someone surer, someone innocent
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| Young and beautiful
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| Someone purer
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| That’s no one I know
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| I was scratching at my skin
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| Hoping changes would begin
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| But what laid beneath was blood
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| Well of course
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| What the hell was I thinking of?
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| Won’t you take me down to the creek?
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| Wash away our sins and sleep
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| I feel so tired
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| As though I might not wake at all on the other side
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| That’s no way to go That’s no way to go That’s no way to go Oh my dear one
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| Bathe me in your glow
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| Cut out my lonely heart
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| And bury it in the snow
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| Nothing really means nothing
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| Is the saddest thing I know
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| So deliver me from sin
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| And give me rock and roll
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| Give me rock and roll
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| And in the morning there’ll be hope
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| And in the morning there’ll be light
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| And if I sleep and dream up a system
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| A solution to fend off perils of the night
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| Come on in, I’ll be born again
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| Born again as someone else
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| Someone kinder, someone surer, someone beautiful
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| Someone purer
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| And when I am you’ll know
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| When I am you’ll know
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| When I am you’ll know
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| When I am you’ll know
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| Oh almighty one
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| The devil knows my name
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| Will salvation come
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| To wash away my pain?
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| For I was once a kid
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| With a pure and innocent soul
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| So deliver me from sin
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| And give me rock and roll
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| Give me rock and roll
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| Give me rock and roll
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| And a pure and innocent soul
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| And a pure and innocent soul
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| Give me rock and roll
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| Give me rock and roll
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| And a pure and innocent soul
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| And a pure and innocent soul
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| And a pure and innocent soul
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| And a pure and innocent soul
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| Soul
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| And a pure and innocent soul
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| And a pure and innocent soul
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| And a pure and innocent soul |