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Em
You are testing out your powers now
G
They’re working
Em
You aren’t afraid you may exceed the limits
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That exist
Em
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For others, but for you there is no proof
As of yet
Em
Acceptance comes at such a high price you are
G
G
Broke and nearly broken
F
C
You were given everything
G
C
Upon a Silver Platter
F
C
But you’re screaming “Where’s the Gold?
G
G
Where’s the Gold? Where’s the Gold?”
F
C
You are bending from the burden
G C
Of all your unearned credits
F
You just want to
C
G
G
Be left alone, left alone
C
G
So save yourself and set yourself free
C
F
Tell your stories don’t worry bout me
C
G
Make sure talking about it is not
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C
The opposite of making it real
Don’t call me bankrupt
Though I may be
A beggar in
Your ice-green eyes
But your riches don’t impress me
You’re almost too frail to bear them, you’ll
Need an Atlas tar and ship’s architect
Just to keep those treasures dry
I know your new-fashioned friends
Keep you skipping through the planets
How ‘bout some quality time
Down here on Earth?
There’s a long-haired kitten on the rug
Shedding shocks just by running
Yet you hang your palms to face the sky
And shrug
So save yourself and set yourself free
Tell your story don’t worry bout me
And make sure talking about it is not
The opposite of making it real
If everything is all about nothing
Than we’re not even here
But your absence makes being in this place
Not easier
So I’m learning to hope that you don’t come around
There are far too many love songs but so little love
The last thing the world needs is more sappy words
You are better off planting a tree
There are only five oceans to cool
This earth’s hot rock mantle
Thirteen questions we can use
To probe its mysteries
But when who and what and why and where
And how, can not be answered
Do is may if should could and would exist
Just to keep us wondering forever
So save yourself and set yourself free
Tell your story don’t worry bout me
Make sure talking about it is not
The opposite, the very opposite, of making it real