| I’ve been staring at your ceiling
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| While fixated on days that aren’t today
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| Well you notice things like ambiguous seasons
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| They don’t change like they do in the iron states
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| Spinning 'Spiderland'
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| The winning hand, still planning to fold
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| Exchange present times for the past that you want
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| But you breathe same air
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| The calm nights and riots, the overnight plans
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| When you didn’t seem too curious, way back then
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| But it’s boiling in me up again
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| New review of old days
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| Whatever happened? |
| What changed?
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| Was it any other way?
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| The cards are shuffled up and dealt
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| No place to stand
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| And I am ashamed of keeping you up at night
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| Turning off lights without talking
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| And nodding off to symphonies
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| Or songs from Coltrane
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| I’ll try not to make a sound in my sleep
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| Self-inflict for fun
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| Bottom bottle, keep it down
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| Just like when you bite down on your tongue
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| You’re underneath the wheel
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| You’re saddling up and arriving there
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| Bad timing, your history covers decades you won’t see
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| Been told to write down, been told the right sound |
| No place to stand, the winning hand |