His song rings out across the land
As children follow hand in hand
A killer smile and devil's grin
To grab their ears and rope them in
Charming with his silver tongue
He feeds the lies that fill these lungs
From promises that disappear
All barely kept, much less adhered to
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I've gotten good
At self-sabotage
Down in my hood
I'll write in camouflage
Nobody knows
These things I seem to doubt
And so it goes
I'm never coming back down
I've seen you glance
You're always questioning
Who made these plans?
Another recipe
We speak in turn
Beneath these mushroom clouds
One day you'll learn
This fleeting silence screams out
One day you'll learn
This fucking silence screams out
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Everybody loves someone, it's true
But I can't find the reason I loved you
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Kept in foreign closets, tossed away in peril
Every hope made feral for some fun
Hiding in the floorboards,, switches to some trap doors
Waiting here to let it come undone
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Have the lights gone out like clockwork? Are the lights still out at home?
Have the lights gone out across this town? Is anybody left at all?
Have the lights gone out on main street? Are there lights left in the sky?
If the lights burnt out in your hometown, would anybody wonder why?
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One by one, we'll all come home
For every scar that's been disowned
Brought out back to hold within
Made clear and free of everything