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Artist: Ben Folds Five
Canonical path: /ben-folds-five/mess
Related lyric paths: 6
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Mess
Read Mess lyrics by Ben Folds Five on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Mess
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Was a Time That I Had Nothing to Explain
Oh, This Mess I Had Made
But Then Things Got Complicated
My Innocence Has All But Faded
Oh, This Mess I Have Made
And I Don't Believe in God
So I Can't Be Saved
All Alone As I've Learned to Be
In This Mess I Have Made
All the Untested Virtue
The Things I Said I'd Never Do
Least of All to You
I Know He's Kind and True
I Know That He Is Good to You
He'll Never Care For You More Than I Do
But I Don't Believe in Love
So I Can't Be Tamed
All Alone As I've Learned to Be
In This Mess
I Have Made the Same Mistakes
Over and Over Again
There Are Rooms in This House That I Don't Open Any More
Dusty Books of Pictures On the Floor
That She Will Never See
She'll Never See That Part of Me
I Want to Be For Her
What I Could Never Be For You
And I Don't Believe in God
So I Can't Be Saved
All Alone As I've Learned to Be
In This Mess I Have Made
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Ben Folds Five performs "Mess", and this lyric page sits inside the Ben Folds Five catalog on LyroVerse.
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