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Artist: Mike Mains & The Branches
Canonical path: /mike-mains-the-branches/played-it-safe
Related lyric paths: 6
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Played It Safe
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Played It Safe
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Played it safe and went to school
You did what mother and father taught you to
Used another man’s one-up tools
Taught you nothin’
Out along the great divide
You keep the other boys awake all night
Spread out as thin as crackin’ ice
Taught you nothin’
Taught you nothin’, woo!
Maniac, am I just a toy?
The boat we were in had been capsized
From the giant wave of all the lies
They taught me somethin’
Oh, they taught you nothin’, oh!
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Mike Mains & The Branches performs "Played It Safe", and this lyric page sits inside the Mike Mains & The Branches catalog on LyroVerse.
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