INTRO 
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We make so many promises

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But we keep hardly any

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The least that we can say for ourselves

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is that we can laugh, and we can cry
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and we can steal what we need

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we're just as scared

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as anyone else struggling for sense

(instrumental interlude, you can repeat intro and it sounds good.)

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We spent so many whole nights

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tearing the world limb from limb

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and finding nothing but ourselves

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that's what scares us most of all

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but when we're walking

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under streetlights 

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we know these buildings

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could never be as beautiful as us

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Huddled by the shortwave, 

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cheering on the BA 

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We cried for the ones at Ludlow

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and sang songs about those beautiful months
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in 1871 

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and we'd like to think we've done our best

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we've been scared many a time

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but we've never given in