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[water falling]

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? [drumming] ?

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- ? If you've
never been crushed

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? I'll spare you the layout

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? just crawl into a cannon
and sing as the fuse fade out

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? What an incredible gift
it is to soak in devastation

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? To cry inside your coffin
when the diggers grow impatient

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? and you get to tell it all
for 50 minutes a week

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? to a counselor who cannot
seduce you out of your sleep

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? and all the king's horses
carry all the king's men

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? to the conclusion that a
cheater was never my best friend

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- (? Oooh, oooh ?)

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- Diji: ? I'll be the light
before it gets dark

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? cause I'm the one who
memorized the beat of your heart

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? I never intended
to push you far

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? or force you into
submission over who you are

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? I'll be the light
before it gets dark

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? cause I'm the one who
memorized the beat of your heart

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? I never intended
to push you far

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? or force you into
submission over who you are

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[echoing]
? are, are, are

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[metallic clinking]

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[buzzing]

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[out of breath panting]

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? I think humility would rather
have different reasons to visit

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? but if it must, it will, and
if it will, then you gon' get it

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? now the scriptures'
making sense
in an ironic turn of events

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? Caught me balling up
my fists to the note
of self righteousness

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? instead of hog-tying my pain
to a pen and a page

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? so I scribbled until
the miracle got to a vein

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? and my momma was still
my momma in spite of the war

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? Who for her baby would choke
an elephant out of its roar

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- (? Oooh, oooh ?)

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- Diji: ? I'll be the light
before it gets dark

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? cause I'm the one who
memorized the beat of your heart

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? I never intended
to push you far

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? or force you into
submission over who you are

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? I'll be the light
before it gets dark

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? cause I'm the one who
memorized the beat of your heart

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? I never intended
to push you far

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? or force you into
submission over who you are

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- ? Thaw out the joy
in the heat of your palm

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? pretend it's cool
that Hope was leading you on

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? write the bitterest,
most infamous, villainous poem

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? nearly blow out a lung
every chance you get to perform

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? believe your momma when
she says that it broke her too

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? and also when she says
your ex ain't that cute

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? then make peace with the
sticks and stones inside of you

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? and fly when she says
you can go back to your school

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- (? Oooh, oooh ?)

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[zipping bag]

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(? Oooh, oooh ?)

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[phone chimes for incoming text]

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[phone chimes again]

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[writing audibly]