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The Defeat

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The Defeat

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There is no rush when you don't belong

Turns out we don't all fight like dogs in the end

Most of us want to roll out, roll under the grass

You are limbless, cartoon, no bridge in your song

Spirulina won't cure my heartbreak

I was a dreamer when I learned to take

In between her and a fireplace

There are factors that conditioned me something in the canopy

Clearly

And the blank ones cartwheel out of the furnace

The mould never cracked, you see

The girls in St Denis

Still sleep on their backs

Understood a fact

When you spoke in all your marvelous ideologies

The world is always at ease, at ease, at ease

Don't you see?

And the deaths on the highways

From drinking at casinos

Feel so natural

Every day a dice roll, every way you gamble

Where is something I can handle?

And the world void of Petrov, our savior

We are taught to savor everyone else's failures

Endlessly

Even the greatest, the very very greatest

Gave up, tapped out

Told all you fuckers to lie down

Yet still you found cathedrals of dissent

Where does the robber go

Where does the robber go to repent?

Tell me

Till there you were, you wouldn't buy a round

For your best friend

See it's trickled down

On you I don't depend

There you go then, bye

Another end, bye

Infinitum, bye

There you go then, bye

With such a heavy sound

There is no rush when you don't belong

Turns out we don't all fight like dogs in the end

Most of us want to roll out, roll under the grass

You are limbless, cartoon, no bridge in your song

Make me wonder again

Or make me learn to pretend

Make me wonder again

Or make me learn to pretend

Make me wonder again

Or make me learn to pretend

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