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[Verse 1: Daveed Diggs] |
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Godsmack is how the wind feels |
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On the face of Mike Winfield |
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On his way home from the bar where he works |
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Nights - the worst nights, don't nobody tip right |
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And between the marriage offers and the fist fights |
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And if another mother ****** touch his wrist trying to pull him in to whisper |
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He ain't making it to midnight |
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Don't they know he got a lighter in his pocket |
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A matchbook in his sock and a block full of charred skeletons closeted begging to get out |
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He paused cause he's scared of airing out the thoughts |
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He can taste it in his mouth the sulfur and bitter carbon |
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Hearing all the burning bodies shout but no |
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That was a full lifetime ago and nobody ever has to know |
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He has never told well except Ronald |
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But that don't count he was sweet and exactly what he needed him to be at the time |
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Wine and candlelight and nice texts at lunchtime |
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Why had he not called Ron back |
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Guess there just wasn't a spark |
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No no musn't joke about these things |
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Wouldn't want to disappoint Doc Clark |
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So many hours on the couch |
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So many buried memories that take so many tears to get them out |
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Water hadn't never been a friend |
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Hold up - where had he seen that car before |
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Blue Acura dent on the left rear fender |
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Back again the sense of |
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Deja Vu |
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Strange things you |
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Never shake when you wake up in recovery |
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But suddenly noticing ash is covering his head cause it's raining from the sky |
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Dials home on his cell phone and gets no reply |
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What the ******? |
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Where is the babysitter that he overpays |
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Body takes over and brain becomes disengaged |
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Michael is running his house is three blocks away |
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Adrenaline compensating for change in age |
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Since the last that he ran it god dammit |
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Mike knows he gotta get home fast as he can |
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Looks up in the sky, glow's familiar |
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Knows those families died with similar |
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Awnings and on and on he keeps going |
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Hits the corner just as he hears the explosion |
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Screams comes from the house,"Did you get them out" |
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Mike asking came the crowd that gathered round |
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Tears running down his face |
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There's that familiar taste |
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He wishes it would take him to another place |
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Son and his baby girl in his home and he can't believe that it's gone in a cloud of smoke |
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And he's choking and running forward and hoping against hope that he might find them alive and well |
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When he knows the results too well and he knows that fooled himself |
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And he keeps walking toward the house rather what house is still left |
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No intention of stopping letting the smoke take his breath |
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Some strong arm rocks him aside Mike falls to the ground and cries |
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Why won't you just let me die |
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Why won't you just let me die |