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Fake Empire

Fake Empire lyrics by The National. Stay out super late tonight picking apples, making pies put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us we're...

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Fake Empire

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Stay out super late tonight picking apples, making pies

put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us

we're half-awake in a fake empire

we're half-awake in a fake empire

Tiptoe through our shiny city with our diamond slippers on

Do our gay ballet on ice

bluebirds on our shoulders

we're half-awake in a fake empire

we're half-awake in a fake empire

Turn the light out say goodnight

no thinking for a little while

lets not try to figure out everything it wants

It's hard to keep track of you falling through the sky

we're half-awake in a fake empire

we're half-awake in a fake empire

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