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Artist: The National
Canonical path: /the-national/patterns-of-fairytales
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Patterns of Fairytales
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Patterns of Fairytales
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Tonight there isn't any light under your door
I guess you must be somewhere breathing
Where skin and everything still know what they are for
And blood remembers where to go
I fell in love with you no matter what you say
But you were right about the reasons
To turn a magdeline into the month of may
I shoulda known the magdeline was me
So i'm turning on the stereo
And i'm lining up the names
On the mixes i made before you
And i'm turning into fairytales
With glitter and some glue
Everything we ever planned to ever do
Tonight there isn't any light under your door
I guess you must be somewhere breathing
In patterns unfamiliar to the one you're underneath
I pinned those patterns in my coat
So i'm turning on the stereo
And i'm turning into fairytales
Yes i'm turning on the stereo
And i'm turning into you
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