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Capo on 4th fret
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I'm the band in a show bout a man holding hands with his wife
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On a therapist's couch with his face to the ground (after fucking around
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countless nights)
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And, in this one episode, close-up cameras are showing him crying
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His red head and his red eyes
I'm the band in a show bout a boy being buried alive,
From his head to his toes, by a criminal (but with a sensitive soul!) with a set of raccoon eyes,
And there's this scene in the show when a hustler knows he's gonna die.
The ground opens and he climbs inside.
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And as he speaks his last line, a thought falls from his mind and I
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pick it up right through the TV:
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Oh, oh
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Is there a hand to take hold of the scene?
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I'm a man in a dream and there, dancing in front of my eyes,
Is the queen - formed out of flaws, with her eyes all gone odd and a rod bolted into her spine.
She rises up like a yawn. She grips my heart like a claw, splits apart like a jaw, like an eye.
And she asks me with a sigh,
Wnen we're so far from right
When we're losing the fight
When we're letting the light weaken it's beam -
Oh, oh
Is there a hand to take hold of the scene?
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I want a smile like a glistening shard. I want a kiss that's as sharp as a
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knife. The day expires.
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and the dry, cracked, trembling lips God saw fit
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to put this kiss inside
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I push them up to you. I'd like to bear witness to
A liight that is fine and is filling the cryingest eyes,
Grace in each face that is making the wastedest, brokenest ones fairly fly,
Love that is innocent, of that ol' cynical, covetest, cancerous vibe,
And a beauty that annihilates all life
Like it's lived in these nights, holding your hatred tight
Like a sign that you're right or you're strong
When your doors are shut tight, I will dream you tonight,
And my dream will just sweep you along.
When all fires are fanned, when we're shucking our plans,
When we're too weak to stand on our two feet -
Oh, oh
Is there a hand to take hold of this scene?
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