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Artist: Modest Mouse
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A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy
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A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy
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So you brush you hair down
and you let your makeup dry
Stupid
and you let the ball drop
Why did you do it?
Why did you do it?
and you let your bridges burn
with your Secretive Timing
He Was a Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy
Named Laughing Boy
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