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I remember vividly
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My tears dropping on the grey carpet on"¨the top step
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Pops giving me his best guess
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Me confessing the burning question stressing "¨and concerning me and
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Turning me to"¨a wet mess
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It's probably nothing
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I get it, I'm aware
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I know it's probably stupid to be scared
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But these days are flying past us and nobody seems to care
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It's like we're sprinting towards a brick wall we're pretending isn't there
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What happens when we hit it?
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Do we split into a million bits
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Or do we come back as a bullfrog and talk in ribbits?
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What is it? "¨What is it? What is it?
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You got the answer so give it, so give it, so give it
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Don't lie, what happens when we die?
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Dad says, Georgie I'm just guessing from what I've been told
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Probably thinking, "How'd I raise this emo fucking nine-year old?"
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Since I'm sorta really not religious it's a crapshoot
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I roll a pair of dice
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Although the thought of paradise is very nice
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In my heart I know I don't believe in magic
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So I'm thinking maybe death is like eternal TV static
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Or returning to the state before your birth
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Absorbed into the earth
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The fewer hours left the more they're worth
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I admit that it's difficult to think about
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I think everybody got a little bit of doubt
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You don't get to hide from it even if you shout
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Not a soul on the planet gets to wiggle out
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And he said that I know that's it's tough to take in son but it's so early
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I can see you're in a hurry but don't worry cause
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That isn't for a long, long time
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That isn't for a long, long time
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That isn't for a long, long time
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That isn't for a long, long, long, long time
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Life moves fast
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Made the mistake of blinking, twenty years passed
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Now I'm sitting in my living room in Brooklyn with father
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We don't bother doing Christmas in the Bay any longer
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It's first time that we've had this conversation
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He says "It's tough to take in
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I know we're not quite ancient
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But we've reached age where we should probably talk arrangements
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We could take it several routes
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We could sell the house
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We can't work forever, eventually money will run out
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That's a spot taking a loan would help"¨ us cover
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Which would make it tougher to leave something for you and your brother"
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Stop, can't you see?
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Every meal that you paid for me
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All this power to chase a dream
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All this privilege not to crave riches
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But it's plain to me the key"¨fact is it's easy to act like cash means jack shit if
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You never lacked it
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And the greatest honor I could have is to make a buck "¨and pass back a
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Fraction of all the happiness you gave to me
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And I will never make you live where you don't aim to be
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Age is just data
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We paint our story A to Z then dip out
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R.I.P. rip out, we tear out the pages
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Tear up the stage and we take a seat
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Making a vacancy
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Famous or not, we fade from the plot
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Every day when a new night falls
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I ride around the sun on this big blue ball
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I get a bit further from the kid called Paul
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And I get a bit closer to the big brick wall
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But since inching up to that fence
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I can run my fingers against"¨all the bricks and mortar and sense
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That it's not so cold and so dense
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And although I'm mournful I've known that I'm not immortal
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I'm not banging into stone but I'm more heading through this portal
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We're born to return to home we're all born to be mincemeat
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Everything dies except for Papaya King hotdogs on 86th St
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Dad hands me a napkin tells me it's been the same since the fifties
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He didn't always love the city but dammit he'll miss me
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How can you miss something after you leave, I agree that it's sad "¨but please
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Don't dwell on it Dad, because
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That isn't for a long, long time
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That isn't for a long, long time
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That isn't for a long, long time
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That isn't for a long, long, long, long time
Watsky- Talking to Myself [X Infinity]
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