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Late night, brakes lock, hear the tires squeal |
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Red light, can't stop so I spin the wheel |
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My world goes black before I feel an angel lift me up |
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And I open bloodshot eyes into fluorescent white |
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They flip the siren, hit the lights, close the doors and I am gone |
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Now I lay here owing my life to a stranger |
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And I realize that empty words are not enough |
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I'm left here with the question of just |
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What have I to show except the promises I've never kept? |
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I lie here shaking on this bed, under the weight of my regrets |
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I hope that I will never let you down |
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I know that this can be more than just flashing lights and sounds |
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Look around and you'll see that at times it feels like no one really cares |
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Gets me down but I'm still gonna try to do what's right |
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I know that there's a difference between sleight of hand |
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And giving everything you have |
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That there's a line drawn in the sand, I'm working up the will to cross it |
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And I hope that I will never let you down |
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I know that this can be more than just flashing lights and sounds |
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Rhetoric can't raise the dead |
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I'm sick of always talking when there's no change |
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Rhetoric can't raise the dead |
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I'm sick of empty words, let's lead and not follow |
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Late night, brakes lock, hear the tires squeal |
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Red light, can't stop so I spin the wheel |
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My world goes black before I feel an angel steal me from the |
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Greedy jaws of death and chance and pull me in with steady hands |
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They've given me a second chance, the artist in the ambulance |
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I hope that I will never let you down |
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I know that this can be more than just flashing lights and sounds |
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Can we pick you off the ground, more than flashing lights and sounds |