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I said a word
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It got caught in my throat and it burned
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Slipped off my tongue and I choked
You were concerned for a second
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Then cries echoed into the night lesson learned
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Because you heard a word
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That I said and this word how it rang
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In your head it was loud and glorious yes
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And from where you lay on my chest
Well you heard it best
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But you held me closely while I screamed
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And I watched the thinnest trails of green
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Run down your neck and drip from your chin
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Thin trails of green, thin lines on gray skin
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Thin lines on gray skin
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Thin lines on gray skin
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Where the world ends that’s where it begins
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My thin lines my thin lines
verse 2
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I said a word
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Was it a blessing or curse?
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Nobody knows the whole story
Nobody hears me but you
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And you would have heard more if you could have I’m sure
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Because you heard my word,
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You still do with your hands, eyes, and rest of you too
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Little stray on my lap, zealot, hellcat
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Can’t forgive what I did to my dream-maker
Has thou forsaken her?
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And if you knew what I knew would you object?
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Are we madmen or soothsayers? Truthfully sweet heretic?
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I bit off the bit that silenced the world for you sewed up my sin
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With thin threads of black, thin lines on gray skin
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Thin lines on gray skin
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Thin lines on gray skin
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Where the world ends that’s where it begins
F# D#
My thin lines, my thin lines