Em
You've got beet blood in your mouth and lies in your 
artichoked heart
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you’re black eyes stalking through me
Em
with a birdcage for ribs, that vultures trying to get 
out
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it’s scratching your kidney wings
Em
we’re no longer feeding ourselves, the raccoons are 
eating our dreams
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pushing past our feeblery to keep them out, this 
                      D
morning I heard one sing:
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there's a whole big world out there my son, be careful 
don't believe them.
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there's a crazy old lady in the sun, she's angry can't 
you feel it?
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if you don’t work hard you’re no son of mine, well 
   C
I’ve earned these riverbeds
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& I’ll drown you out until you’ve made me proud 
  D      D
if you won’t learn you’re better off dead.
Em
so, I’m digging in this farm yard trying to find the 
seeds
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forgetting all I have left in this world of course 
    D
that includes me
Em
so I’m building and I’m learning and leaving nothing 
unsaid
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all I am is all I have, I’ll take this garden for my 
D
bed
Em
and these are not just words built like a city of 
dreams, we have no use for this kingdom
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I’m proud of you my friends, may your lives be a 
              D
symphony of freedom

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I don't want to live forever. I just want to live for 
now
Em
but the angel on my doorstep keeps pointing me towards 
that plow
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so I’m digging in with both my hands, keeping one eye 
on the door
Em
If I go looking I’ll probably find it, ...and get all 
I’ve been asking for

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I don't want to live forever. I just want to live for 
me
Em
but your faces just keep haunting ...sometimes it’s all
 I see
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so I’m working hard at learning all I can I’m gonna 
give it all to you
Em
I’ll keep making payments, until we’re all so straight 
and true

Em
I want to paint seeds together, and follow you right up
 to the edge
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filled up and spilling like carried cups, and watch 
          D
the sun go red
Em
but there’s poison right here in our water, and a shark
 somewhere in the well
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I wanna show you my life, show me your life and tell 
                D
me it’s not the devil
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I guess I I feel the way I feel, you make me feel like 
I‘m alive...
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and I’m alive, am I alive, i am alive so you can 
live...
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please come and live, why don’t you live, you can live 
inside of me...
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there’s a home for you inside me, inside of me there is
 a fire
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inside my fire, there is more fire, and in that fire 
there is truth