| His mama said, «Stay away
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| Away from all the darkness
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| It’ll haunt you…
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| And everything we’ve ever prayed
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| Is the only thing that will ever save you»
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| But it all started, with that little taste
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| It helped keep him up later at night
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| Helped keep the truth come back in sight
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| And when she left him, it dulled the pain
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| He’d hide the marks under his socks
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| The doctor said he was in shock from what he’d seen
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| His mama said, «It's the last time,
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| It’s the last time we’ll be here to save you
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| Because you’ve fucked this up again,
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| And those kids aren’t your friends, they use you up»
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| And now he’s standing in the rain
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| He should have probably hopped the train instead of drove
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| The sergeant’s seen this thing before
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| Maybe some time behind locked doors will save this kid
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| But it don’t save
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| And who’s to blame?
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| The truth just keeps him up at night
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| There was never much inside he liked
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| The guilty phantoms
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| Make him insane
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| He could clean up but why start now?
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| After all who knows how to start again
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| If they don’t save him, who’s to blame?
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| If he don’t save him, who’s to blame?
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| If we don’t save him, who’s to blame?
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| His mama said, «Stay away
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| Away from all the darkness
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| It’ll haunt you…
|
| And everything we’ve ever prayed
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| Is the only thing that will ever save you»
|
| But it all started, with that little taste
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| It helped keep him up later at night
|
| Helped keep the truth come back in sight
|
| And when she left him, it dulled the pain
|
| He’d hide the marks under his socks
|
| The doctor said he was in shock
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| If we don’t save him, who’s to blame?
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| The truth just keeps us up at night
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| Why can’t he see what’s there to like?
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| Do guilty phantoms make us insane?
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| If we clean it up there’s no way out
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| Time will tell if he makes it out of this alive… |