| I’ve been into bad business
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| I’ve been out of my mind
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| I’ve been playing in traffic
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| I’ve been suffering in kind
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| I’ve ben out in bad weather
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| A cause for concern
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| In the art of surrender
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| I’ve got so much to learn
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| Oh I know i should reach out
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| from my confines
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| These battle lines
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| But finding the words is as hard
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| As finding the time
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| (Chorus)
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| Battle lines
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| I keep fighting all the hurt I’ve felt
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| Battle lines
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| I keep saying I don’t need your help
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| Everybody else knows
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| I’m only keeping secrets from myself
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| I’ve been drawn to disaster
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| A willing volunteer
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| I’ve been brought to a standstill
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| By a burgeoning year
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| Got a bleak mental palette
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| But I paint what I see
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| I’ve been handing out secrets
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| To the landscape in me
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| Oh I don’t know
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| when I drew up theses battle lines
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| My confines
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| I play the part of the prisoner
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| And the jailer combined
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| Battle lines
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| I keep fighting all the hurt I’ve felt
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| Battle lines
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| I keep saying I don’t need your help
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| Everybody else knows
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| I’m only keeping secrets from myself
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| Alone in a lover’s twilight with
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| my doubts to keep me warm
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| Watching for a ray of sunlinght
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| to make it all transform
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| It will in time
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| Oh I know I should reach out
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| from my confines
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| These battle lines
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| But finding the words is as hard
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| As finding the time
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| Battle lines
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| I keep fighting all the hurt I’ve felt
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| Battle lines
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| I keep saying I don’t need your help
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| Everybody else knows
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| I’m only keeping secrets from myself (2X) |