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Shock Corridor
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Will Sheff
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A life lifted off a news page.
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A pictorial of you alone in your room,
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Fighting off suicide furiously,
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With The Astronettes bootleg and a bent-back spoon.
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A bus tour through drab poverty;
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I came over and you offered me the guest room.
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A lie for a single page view,
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Courtesy of the assailant who loves you.
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Advice for the heartsick clergyman,
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Because the bridegroom just ain’t in the mood.
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The snake in the grass and the ghost at the feast,
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And the jack of all asses and the last of the least
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Are all flown, first-class, to the team retreat.
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The inventor of anger.
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The perfector of being distracted when someone is talking to you,
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But just slightly â€" super slightly.
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And she said,
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“I don’t care who you are,
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Don’t care what you were,
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No you can’t look away from the Shock Corridor.
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I don’t care who you are,
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Don’t care what you were,
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Don’t you try to look away from the Shock Corridor.
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I don’t care who you are,
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Don’t care what you were,
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You can’t look away from the Shock Corridor."
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So punch the day in the face and charge through a haze of gorse.
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Behind you, your own mother’s living ghost tears her hair out.
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It’s freedom â€" don’t you want it?
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Punch the day in the face and charge through a haze of gorse.
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Behind you, your own mother’s living ghost tears her hair out.
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It’s freedom â€" don’t you want it?
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A light haze of rain, dark-flecks, the grey slate.
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The actor can’t escape from his cold oval.
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Blazed-out hours, rolling, cold and sober.
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“I don’t care who you are,
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Don’t care what you were,
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You can’t look away from the Shock Corridor.â€
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When there was nothing left to talk about,
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We talked specifically about a white-hot penny
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Plunging through the concrete
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And hissing into that buried river,
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Or cutting into the earth’s red-hot sobbing heart.
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And I’m sorry I was a shit.
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I didn’t know why I was doing it.
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I’m not needed, and why would you really want to hear my voice even?
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‘Cause I’m the light from a star that deserved to implode,
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And did, six million years ago.
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I’m the light from a star that deserved to implode,
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And did, six million years ago.
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I’m the faded Orange Crush can in the woods,
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And the kid who tossed it's now going through his third divorce.
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I used to lie back in my teenage bed and feel love
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So much heart-busting love
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Just this surge of love, this surge of love
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For everything, everything, everything…
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I used to lie back in my teenage bed and feel love
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So much heart-busting love
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Just this surge of love, this surge of love
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For everything, everything, everything…
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Now I lie on my couch with my brains bashed out
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And my tools and my toys all lying around,
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And I wish I could feel that way about
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Really anything, anything, anything, anything, anything…
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"Yeah, but still," she says,
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“I don’t care what you are
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Or care what you were,
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You can’t get away from the Shock Corridor.
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I don’t care what you are
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Or care what you were,
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You can’t get away from the Shock Corridor."
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