| Did you know that the hole in the apple didn’t come from the outside in?
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| It was eaten from the core and out to the skin, and that’s why you’ll never
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| find the worm in it
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| But a few bad ones won’t spoil the eyes if they fall far enough from the tree
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| The rind is all you see, leave Eden with my seeds in your stomach
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| Well, this disease is defined by its treatment, you people make me sick
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| Parlance of imbalanced cambia’s been challenged, at best AstraZeneca’s just
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| theoretical
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| Prints of your fingers in the Rorschach jigsaw, say you saw a treasure map
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| Straight-jacket and tie, psychiatric supply, while we tragically try to fit
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| into a trap, but
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| Who’d want to be human anyway? |
| (Ay ay ay ay)
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| Who pilots all these crude machines?
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| Why’d you come into this world or come out that way?
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| Like freaks of nurture, well isn’t it funny?
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| (Well, not «ha-ha» funny, but y’know, funny)
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| 'Cause I doubt that you would even if you could change
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| You think it makes you special, but it makes you strange
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| I doubt that you would even if you could change
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| The things that make you special are the things that make you strange
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| I am the shadows cast aside by gallows, and you the red-hot sky
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| And if you’re believers, then why would you grieve for the dead instead of a
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| devil that you never prayed for?
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| You become immune to my toxic fumes, my dose-dependent presence in your life
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| It’s all subjective, all due respect to the collective mind, but
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| Too weird to love, too scared to die (Ay ay ay ay)
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| Too alien to take you home
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| Horrified at the sight of my reflection in your eyes
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| I don’t belong there
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| Well, it’s your conclusions that make mine delusions, so I make you sane
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| You can thank me later
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| I doubt that you would even if you could change
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| You think it makes you special, but it makes you strange
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| I doubt that you would even if you could change
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| The things that make you special are the things that make you strange
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| Who’d want to belong to anyone? |
| (Ay ay ay ay)
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| I mean, what do people even do?
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| So if you love me, let me let you go, my love (Ay ay ay ay)
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| So I can be no one
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| When Chuang-Tzu awoke he sat up
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| Almost choking, spat out a butterfly and said, «Five more minutes, please?
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| You wouldn’t believe the dream I just had. |
| I mean you were there,
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| and you were there, and you, and you, and you were there»
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| 'Cause I doubt that you would even if you could change
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| You think it makes you special, but it makes you strange
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| I doubt that you would even if you could change
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| The things that make you special are the things that make you—
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| I doubt that you would even if you could change
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| You think it makes you special, but it makes you strange
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| I doubt that you would even if you could change
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| The things that make you special are the things that make you strange |