| It’s amazing what you can give up
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| If you just want to survive
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| You’ll discard cherished convictions
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| And spread yourself wide for your ravagers
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| When they approach to defile you
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| Voyeurs hiding behind the skyline
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| Peer down at me, but I try to ignore them
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| They track me through the aisles larded with treasure
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| And mock me at night when I’m begging for silence
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| Don’t want to be held responsible
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| You can take whatever you want from me
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| Just make sure I don’t notice
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| You can take whatever you want from me
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| And the waltzes play on in halls of gold
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| While the misfortunates slop back and forth
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| Between the flophouses, clinics and prisons
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| Until their weight carves ruts in the earth
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| Don’t want to be held responsible
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| You can take whatever you want from me
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| Just make sure it doesn’t hurt
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| You can take whatever you want from me
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| This is the world we’ve made for ourselves
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| But our acid abstentions
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| Will dissolve the limestone beneath us
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| And when the sinkhole opens up
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| We won’t deserve to be pulled out
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| It’s amazing what you can give up |