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Simon Joyner
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that crucial filament is all but spent
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and soon it will be dark in my basement
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my heart is waxing the slick floor again
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hoping i'll slip, and fall in love
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well, she gave me the choice
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to remain and rejoice or to recoil and rebel
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well, papa, this gravity attack
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yeah, it's a gravity attack
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and i can't seem to carry, much less bury the past
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well, your ex-girlfriend said i was a terrible mess
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yeah, she's got a real good head on her shoulders
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when the singer spoke and confessed
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he didn't really smoke cigarettes,
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she said her teenage brother smouldered
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on a hotbed of coal in a sterile white room
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underneath that joy division poster
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he moaned papa, he moaned papa,
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sometimes i gotta vent my spleen!
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sometimes i gotta vent my spleen
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when i get shattered in the heart
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and scattered in the brain
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well, all the medicine in these sermons
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still can't keep his brazen nose from turning
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and salvation, it may come free of charge
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but faith always costs him something
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they say there's nothing as sacred
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as the blood between brothers
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when it's pricked from their thumbs
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and exchanged beneath the covers
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well, papa, my brother is gone!
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yeah, my brother is gone!
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so would you tell me now how it is
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i'm supposed to get along?
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well, you asked for a chorus but you got a refrain
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yeah, it's another sad song that moves like a train
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you can't whistle to it
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but you can fast-forward through it
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flick it off your shoulder like dead skin
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they say my head on a plate
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may curve the debate
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about the unbearable high cost of living
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but papa, everything falls apart!
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everything falls apart
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and the grass will grow
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as surely as they'll break your heart
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart [...
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