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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no-one notices the contrast of white on white.
And in in between the moon and you angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again. Where? I don’t know.
Maria says she’s dying; through the door I hear her crying. Why? I don’t know
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Round here we always stand up straight
Round here, something radiates.
Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand. She said she’d like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
She walks along the sand out where the ocean meets the land just like she’s walking on a wire in the circus.
She parks her car outside of my house, takes her clothes off, and says she’s close to understanding Jesus
She knows she’s more than just a little misunderstood, she has trouble acting normal when she’s nervous
Round here we’re carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions, but we sacrifice like lambs.
Round here she’s slipping through my hands
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Sleeping children better run like the wind
Out of the lightning dream
Mama’s little baby better get herself in
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Out of the lightning
She says, “It’s only in my head.”
She says, “shh…I know it’s only in my head.”
But the girl on the street by the parking lot says:”Man, you should try and take a shot. Can’t you see my walls are crumbling?”
Then she looks up at the building, says she’s thinking of jumping. She says she’s tired of life, but she must be tired of something.Round here she’s always on my mind
Round here I got lots of time
Round here we’re never sent to bed early Man, nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late.
I can’t see nothin’, nothin’, ’round here
You could catch me if I’m falling, You catch me ’cause I’m leaning, Will you catch me ’cause i’m falling
Down on you I said i’m under the gun around her.e
Oh, man I said i’m under the gun, around here
And I can’t see nothin’, nothin’
Round here.