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Artist: The Cranberries
Canonical path: /the-cranberries/what-you-were
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What You Were
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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What You Were
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Now it's easy for to see,
Why peoples lives are so lonely?
And you never understood,
You never really could,
You were wrong.
What you were, what you were,
I couldn't say.
'Cause you left me here behind,
A stupid state of mind,
And I'm lonely.
Yeah, you left me here behind,
A stupid state of mind,
And you're gone.
'Cause you left me here behind,
A stupid state of mind,
And you're gone.
What you were, what you were,
I couldn't say.
It took something hard like this,
Mistaken to resist,
And I'm lonely.
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