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Artist: Idlewild
Canonical path: /idlewild/tell-me-10-words
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Tell Me 10 Words
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Tell Me 10 Words
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I have to stop saying to be honest
It's not a real defeat
To have to stop saying to be honest
It's not a great defeat
No no no not such a great defeat
[bridge]
All these things that you don't know
It seems so much better that way
All these things that you don't know
It seems so much better that way
[chorus]
Can you tell me ten words that you'd use
To describe the world
Tell me ten words that you'd use
To describe the world to people
Though people never seem to know
To people though people never know
The more I say the more I keep confusing things
To make me feel complete
So I keep lying to be honest
And it's not a real defeat
No no no not such a real defeat
[bridge]
[chorus]
It's what you thought you are x5
It's what you thought you could be
If you tried much harder
[bridge] x2
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