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The Bell Beat
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When you were a child you spied and no one knew.
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Under porches you hid while folks looked on confused.
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You bled from your shins, memories and scars can prove.
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And ran for your life when the coast was clear and true.
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This wood, this glass, this home has stories much like your own
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They're hidden in the stone, she whispers what she knows.
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When the decades had passed they laid brick upon brick of lore
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With no eyes just doors, she thinks cars are waves breaking on shore.
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Remember our apartment filled with smoke down in The Corridor
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When Jimmy barbecued outside our window.
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Jeff slept in the alley rather than knock on our door.
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You said the radiator pings were ghosts under the floor.
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Alright, OK. The clock will tick, the flash bulb will flick.
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We'll seize it quick, today. Let's weather the wood.
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These walls would sing if they could.
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The cracks and chips and bends and warps, it's her attitude
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She's not brand new, she sees everything through.
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As loud as we could we sang Nina Simone.
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Television competed with outside our window.
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The neighbors above moved chairs at 3 in the morn.
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And I loved you more than ever before.
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Alright, OK. The slivers will prick, branches grow thick.
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We'll seize it quick, today. Let's weather the wood.
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These walls would sing if they could.
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