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I fell for guys who tried to commit suicide, |
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With soft rock hair and blood shot eyes. |
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He tastes like |
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Marlboro cigarettes, |
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Reese's Peanut |
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Butter Cups, |
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A Pepsi in his hand, getting off the school bus. |
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Films and drills and safety illustrations |
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The crushed cars of driver education |
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Now its tattooed girls with a past they can't remember, |
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Who pledged allegiance to a life of bending the curriculum. |
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She tastes like spring, there she goes again, |
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Drinking with the older guys, tripping by the lakeside. |
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Films and drills and safety illustrations |
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The crushed cars of driver education |
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When you were sweet sixteen, |
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I was already mean and |
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Feeling bad for giving it up to the man just to make the scene. |
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Where were you, back when |
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I had something to prove, |
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With the switchblade set and the church kids learning my moves? |
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I ran for miles through the suburbs of the seventies, |
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Pollen dust and |
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Pixie sticks, kissing in the deep end |
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Of swimming pools before |
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I knew what's in there. |
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We come into this life waterlogged and tender. |
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Films and drills and safety illustrations |