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 DANIEL (BABY BOY) by KIMYA DAWSON
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[Verse 1]
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I was twelve and things had been
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Pretty okay up till then
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The only deaths I’d experienced
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Were of pets and the grandparents of my friends

[Verse 2]
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I was in gifted and talented
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Until right around the seventh grade
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But that is when everything changed
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And I had to flip a switch and shut off my brain

[Chorus]
           G       D   C
Cause if I thought too much
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I’d get sick to my stomach
            G         D      C
And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

[Verse 3]
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Cause that is when I realized that
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Even little babies die and
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I had to build a wall inside to
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Keep me from losing my mind

[Verse 4]
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He was only nine months old
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A kid I’d babysit and hug and hold
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And I would tickle his toes and pat his head
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And watch his chest rise and fall as he slept in his crib

[Bridge]
            G        D         C
And then my dad said late last night
        G          D            C
A drunk driver hit their car he didn’t survive
        G            D           C
And his mom was hurt bad but his dad is alright
        G          D             C
His big brother is fine cause he stayed at the party
          G         D             C
Yeah yeah steven is fine cause he stayed at the party

[Chorus]
         G       D   C
And if I thought too much
        G       D  C
I’d get sick to my stomach
            G         D      C
And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

[Verse 5]
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Sometimes things happen when we are small
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That we just don’t have the tools to deal with at all
      G           D         C
So we bottle them up and we just don’t see
        G             D          C
How the stuff that we stuff will affect who we’ll be

[Verse 6]
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What protects us as kids slowly makes us insane
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So I’m trying to dismantle barricades
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Brick by brick in an attempt to set free my brain
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Brick by brick in an attempt to set free my brain
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And I just hope that my heart is stronger now
        G             D           C
So much stronger than it was when I was twelve

[Chorus]
          G       D   C
When if I thought too much
        G       D  C
I’d get sick to my stomach
            G         D      C
And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

[Verse 7]
              G       D         C
And I’d sing ‘Daniel’ again and again
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And pretend you were just traveling on a plane
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Quarter century later it’s still hard to take
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But with every red tail light I scream out your name
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Yeah with every red tail light I scream out your name
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Yeah with every red tail light I scream out your name

[Outro]
       G       D       C
I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
       G       D       C
I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
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I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy