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The first thing you see is the light.
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Then, you focus on a man in a mask with a knife
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as he cuts you away from everything you thought you knew about life.

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And now you?re in your mother?s arms, wrinkled and wet.
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You?re gonna spend the rest of your life trying to hard to forget
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that you met the world naked and screaming, and that?s how you?ll leave it.

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In Riverside Hospital,
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this was on a July morning, with a push and a pull,
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and this is how I found out I wasn?t quite so invulnerable.

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   It put the fear of God in me when I heard my daddy say,
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?one mistake is all that it takes.?

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                       G5
I ended up at Central School, 1993,
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and met a certain kid named Sarim at the library.
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He said, theyre aint nothing about this place thats elementary.

                        G5
I learned to play the guitar in the seventh grade
               C5
in order to convince everyone I was a renegade.
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That?s when I learned, in Glen Rock, everybody calls a spade a spade.

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   I couldn?t fool anyone. I couldn?t even fool myself.
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I was just another book on the shelf.
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Nothing else.