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[feat. Tegan Quinn]
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I know, leaving's your living, built in your bones
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No one can ever escape all of their ghosts
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So if you walk, you better learn how to run
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That's why I wrote this song
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Your contrail's coated in broken homes
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You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope
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That I won't parade your skeletons for everyone
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But that's why I wrote this song
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That's why I wrote this song
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That's why I wrote this song
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That's why I wrote this song
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I know you know the words, so sing along
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She always made the best of deaf and blind
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Fashionable dress of canes and signs
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Tracing their apparel, like a judge of character in Braille
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She never missed a lift, a bump, or line
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But fingertips will drift and miss blip from time to time
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And this is how we find
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Secrets that slipped our grip
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Over wit and charm on whispered breath
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Frantically fishing for familiarness on fingertips
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And this is just, shit, what is this?
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This is redress
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I know her cane is just a comedy
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Tin cup's a crutch for crippled honesty
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Her slain perception's lame deception
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What's astonishing, we bought it, see
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Every Harry, Dick, and Tom, left her very fickle palms
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Palming a broken promise ring, you follow me?
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A hundred strong men choked on the bit
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While the blind bride guides the bridle toward the abyss
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And this can only end wrong
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But motherfuck it, that's the reason why I wrote this song
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I know, leaving's your living, built in your bones
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No one can ever escape all of their ghosts
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So if you walk, you better learn how to run
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That's why I wrote this song
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Your contrail's coated in broken homes
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You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope
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That I won't parade your skeletons for everyone
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But that's why I wrote this song
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Lionel Terray said it the truest, I set it to music
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We're all "Conquistadors of the Useless"
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What kind of fool is so stupid to climb a mountain do it
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Then climb back down to the town without a picture to prove it?
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I knew it
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From the moment I saw your eyes flash wide in the crowd
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That you would cut and run, but it's too late to turn back now
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It's when those burnt black clouds submerge the Earth in shroud
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That kings earn that crown
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And this is how we rise by taking the fall
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Survive another winter on straight to the thaw
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One day you'll learn to strain the tea through your teeth
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And maybe find the strength to proceed to the peak
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Press on into the thin again till I cannot breathe
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I swallowed so much of my damn pride that it chokes me
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The real risk is not a slipped grip at the edge of the peak
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The real danger is to linger at the base of the thing
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I know, leaving's your living, built in your bones
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No one can ever escape all of their ghosts
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So if you walk, you better learn how to run
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That's why I wrote this song
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Your contrail's coated in broken homes
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You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope
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That I won't parade your skeletons for everyone
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But that's why I wrote this song
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That's why I wrote this song
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That's why I wrote this song
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That's why I wrote this song
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I know you know the words, so sing along
Astronautalis - Contrails (feat. Tegan Q...
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