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A Matter Of Minutes

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A Matter Of Minutes

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I've been thinking

About you and me

Maybe I was just

Seeing what I wanted to see

You can call me crazy

But you know this time I swore

That I wouldn't run

But I can't do that anymore

I can't find a way to stay

And I can't see my way to go

But I can't give up without a fight.

I can pack myself up in a matter of minutes,

Leave you all far behind

All of my old world and all the things in it are hard to find

If they ever were mine

You've been trying

And I know it's been hard

And I'm afraid of

All this blood in my heart

If there's one thing certain

It's there ain't nothing for sure

And I want to run

But I can't do that anymore

I can't meet you half way

And I can't have it my way

And I can't give up without a fight

I can pack myself up in a matter of minutes,

Leave you all far behind

And all of my old world and all the things in it are hard to find

All of my old world and all the things in it are hard to find

Like they ever were mine

I could count the good times we had

On one hand

All the rest was

A sort of means to the end

Well not it's done

And I can never

Go back to where I was before

And I wanna run...

I can get myself clean in a matter of minutes

And get it wrong every time

All of my whole world and all the things in it are hard to, hard to find

Everything change in a matter of minutes

And nothing was saved in time

All of my old world and all the things in it are hard to find

But they never

never

never

were mine

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