| Hanging bones like paper dolls
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| And posing by museum walls
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| A forest of quotation marks
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| Where minnows masquerade as sharks
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| And every line is well rehearsed
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| And everyone in line is first it’s
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| Almost like you really care
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| Almost like you really hear
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| Almost like you’re really there
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| Almost like you’re really here
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| Dressed just like a skeptic
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| But you tow the party line
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| You have no dialectic but
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| You know the secret sign
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| And every line is well rehearsed
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| And everyone in line is first it’s
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| Outskirts and concentric rings
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| Follow you they follow you
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| Shallow cuts and childish things
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| Follow you they follow you
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| Scratch the surface just like this
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| Follow you it followed you
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| Shadows of a class dismissed
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| Followed you it followed you
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| While it’s no surprise I’ll try to be
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| Kind to your disguise just another
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| Plot to subdivide passenger
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| Just waiting for a ride down around the
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| Corner now they say that you never
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| Ever saw the train leave without you
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| Try to place a call to that picture
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| Hanging on the wall same old message
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| No one there at all there’s no answer
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| Scripture known by rote by this time there’s
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| Nothing left to quote but your skin a
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| Scribbled sheet for notes incoherent
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| Charm will steal your time
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| Just as time will steal your charm |