| You don’t have to tell me that I’m stubborn
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| 'Cause I’m not
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| And I know cause it runs in my family
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| And skips every other generation
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| You don’t have to save my soul
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| Or make me feel like I’m in control
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| It’s not worth the double scotch whiskey
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| That you’d have to buy me
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| You look like you’re surprised
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| Like when will I get wise
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| But I’ll just drive the same dead ends I’ve tried
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| And I think I know why
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| There’s no connection between what I want
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| And what is good for me
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| The truth, I tell myself not to believe
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| You don’t know, I could have been somethin'
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| But I’m not and I know that it’s somebody else’s fault
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| Just like every other thing
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| That’s ever happened to me
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| Yeah, I could have been like the king
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| Or like someone who could really sing
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| Folks would line up round the corner
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| Just so they could come and hear me
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| There I go again
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| Them devils love their sin
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| Well, they can’t end what I do not begin
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| So I’m safe where I’m in
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| And there’s no connection between what I want
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| And what is good for me
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| The truth, I tell myself not to believe
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| There’s no direction between where I am
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| And where I’m supposed to be
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| The truth, I tell myself not to believe
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| Don’t think that I’m expecting you to stay
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| 'Cause you won’t and I know
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| 'Cause I’ve seen it a million times
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| It’s just a charming, self destructive disposition of I
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| Yeah, all those happy endings are for fools
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| Who feel like they will never lose
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| Folks, who think there’s a God out there
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| That’s gonna save them
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| I’ll get this 'round my friend
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| And then we can start again
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| Just like we did when we were who we are
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| Have we come that far?
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| There’s no connection between what I want
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| And what is good for me
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| The truth, I tell myself not to believe
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| There’s no direction between where I am
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| And where I’m supposed to be
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| The truth, I tell myself not to believe |