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Simple Story

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Simple Story

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I know this is a simply story

But where you're gonna hear another one

Just like this?

Another minute passing

Waiting up for something I hear

And then I start to exist when you are looking for me

While I have to leave will make your thoughts all burn

Maybe I need to be, I'm so good

To figure out just what all this means to you

I should have prayed of something

Should have said something then but it's too late

I know this is a simply story

Gonna have to be a man someday

Let's start a vicious cycle

Let me off the leash and watch me run in the grass

But then I disappear

I show up a few days later

With my foot in the trap

Burning soul in my heart that's bleeding

I'm howling at the moon just

Hoping someone understand

That I only came in the season

When I smack the boat on the wind

And had the beat of the bat

I know I'd give my reasons

To give you something, oh to give me

Something to believe

Why do I even need this?

Gonna have to do what I'd be do

Just like a fucking teenage summer

Some things down the cracks off???

But it's not just the hymn about it

I might have to throw up things

To keep me up on the path

Like it's only in time and distance

You're in the park box out of can even when outside

You're just off the town and my way

Gonna have to sleep, it's too loud

Let's start a vicious cycle

Let me off the leash and watch me run in the grass

But then I disappear

I show up a few days later

With my foot in the trap

Burning soul in my heart that's bleeding

I'm howling at the moon just hoping

Someone understand

That I only came in the season

When I smack the boat on the wind

And had the beat of the bat

I know it's just a feeling

Shouldn't even have these thoughts, but it's too late

I know it's a simple story

Gonna have to be a man someday

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