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Artist: John Frusciante
Canonical path: /john-frusciante/the-real
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Real
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The Real
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I dont know the real from what I thought I saw
I can't remember where I went
Where I was
I'm gonna move toward a point in time
Where you are is a state of mind
And anytime I can read your thoughts
Some of them yours and some I thought up
There's no good reason for heartbreak
Nothing's repeating every Monday
It's no good saying you'll always be mine
These jokes life's playing they make me so tired
It's already to much to always see you off
The sense that hours go back is enough
I like to fade when I write this line
There's every reason to paint a decline
And every mile i walk is five
I'll get where I'm going in the next life
And all the while there's a false face
This every killing is left untraced
This kind of falling saved my son
This constant longing for what's gone
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John Frusciante performs "The Real", and this lyric page sits inside the John Frusciante catalog on LyroVerse.
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