| His nervous heart has long stopped beating
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| But the body still pretends that it is me
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| And if all the queues are met
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| The lowest expectation set
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| You will suspend your disbelief
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| And you and I can act like nothing ever happened
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| We can be so unaffected by the course of history
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| If what you’ve lost gives you a reason to surrender
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| How can you pretend that this is who you want to be
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| Wanted to tell you not to give up
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| That the reward was worth the pain
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| But a lie to ease your sorrow is still a lie
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| And what could either of us hope to gain
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| When you and I still act like nothing ever happened
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| We can be so unaffected by the course of history
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| If what you’ve lost gives you a reason to surrender
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| How can you pretend that this is who you want to be
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| We let our systems shut down
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| We build so many walls
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| Yes we’re afraid, but we are safe
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| And no one ever has to know
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| That we have nowhere else to go
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| We want outside ourselves
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| But it’s to late
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| We were acting like nothing ever happened
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| So ashamed to be affected by the course of history
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| And what we lost gave me a reason to surrender
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| I can’t remember now what I had hope to be
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| You didn’t want to lie to me
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| You didn’t want to tell the truth
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| But there was just no other way
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| The world would keep it’s faith in you
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| You didn’t want to burn it down
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| But you couldn’t let it be
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| You sweep the ashes off the ground
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| And you suspend your disbelief
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| By my own hand he said
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| By my hand
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| I will fall |