Tonart: F# minor
Verse 1
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We're going to take a chance.
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Gosh, what a surprise, dude.
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The other day, I was driving along
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in my wife's car
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with the kid in the back and
the kid's seat.
And sometimes when you're driving along,
it's just all sunny and great,
and sometimes you have bad thoughts.
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An d I had a bad thought.
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I thought, what if I see a wreck?
What if there's people out there?
What am I going to say to them?
And that made me start thinking,
how the hell do I explain the
whole thing to them?
Because lots of this
is very hard to make sense of,
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you know.
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How am I going to explain it to him?
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What am I going to say?
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But it's something that grim
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How the hell do you tell
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That comes an end?
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How you gonna handle it
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And still be that friend?
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To all of the innocents
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Brought to this place
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These and other questions
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And I'm not satisfied
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With the answers I know
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What are you go ing to say
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To those eyes, I can't even get close
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To those lies, easier to tell
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If you just say oh well
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I'll explain it when he's older
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Somehow that's colder
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Than I want to be
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I am uncomfortable lying to a child
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Feels like building a trap
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for something wild
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Feels like building a house on the sand
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And expecting the ocean
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to let it stand
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up with better stuff
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See, I'm just not satisfied
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with all the simplified guff
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That they shovel at the kids by the handful
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The candy they buy at a stand for
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The flags by the side of the road
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Not good enough to handle that load of crap like they do
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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where I can tell them the truth
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About everything from Jesus
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to John Wilkes Booth
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They lie in the house and the senate, too
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Only get close to the truth
when it suits them, too
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And the very next day,
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they're back to lying that way
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Of course it doesn't seem
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to matter what I want
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But I look at some of the faces,
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all haggard and gone
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And I wonder which thing made them
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I'd lose the dream
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It's mine, it's alive
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Give me what you would see
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And I would just like to be able
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Without the light in those eyes
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I wanna dream for him
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I want a dream, dream, dream,
dream, dream, dream for him
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I want a dream for him
Interlude 2
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Verse 3
There you go, brand new, hot off
the presses.
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