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I'll tell you in street intersections because they give you a place to go.
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Give meanings to lines on maps, and tell you how you're gonna get home.
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Now I'm back here in the Midwest, where everything's familiar and
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sincere but everything's external. Nothin' just happened to you here, in-
between coasts. [ B E B E ]
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Looking for what it was you lost on 2nd St. Forgot what it was
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on Washington. And you let it go, you let it go, you let it go and jumped in
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that pool on Dunn. We're still in town, isn't that fun. Yeah, isn't that fun.
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Now I know there's been some hard times, and I don't mean you and me.
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You're over believing and back to forgetting, and you're turning on T.V.
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And what you see just makes you numb, and the headlines all become a
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blur. And the years and the lives scroll by the bottom of the screen like
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desert sand. We're entrenched in a mess, embedded in our beds, sleeping in.
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What I wouldn't give, to want to live like I once did.
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Looking for what it was you lost on 2nd St. I'm staring through the
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windows of my friends, and I can see all their lofted beds. Imagining all
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these lofty dreams in skinny clouds above their heads, and we're waitin' for the
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hesitation to end.
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This town is way too small to ever need the bus. So meet me at the pool that
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They keep unlocked all night for us.