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Artist: The Parlor Mob
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When I Was An Orphan
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When I Was An Orphan
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I can see your face call it
Breaking me alright
Pretty soon your heart will be gone
You can have the best of me
I can take the rest of me
Why are we growing apart
Ripping out the guts
Where there's something to save
Can you take more
Take more all I ask for
Can you make sure
Make sure I come after
Passing out your plastic
That couldn't care couldn't care
Tell your turning back
That I'd trade you for no one
When I was an orphan
And you were a crow
I couldn't believe
You were saying it's so
So I held out my arms
Like love was such a laugh
But I'd follow forgiveness
Back to the sun
If you and I were the only ones to stay
Or how is it supposed to be now
I can see the bones of indifference
It's sickening
Sticking through the side
Of the fool I became
Another photograph
To kiss me in the morning
How can I call you back
You don't treat me the same
Can you fake more
Fake more childish laughter
Can you make sure
Make sure I come after
Lipstick on the glass
Left to figure out figure out
Packed your pretty promise
It's the gift that you gave
When you were a daughter
And I was scab
And I never remembered
Feeling so bad
You pulled my hair
And I smashed your telephone
You're set in your ways
And not changing for me
And I said it so clear
Still you didn't agree
You just left it so chance
As if some way it's free and it failed
So how is it supposed to be now
Starting to see
This is getting us nowhere
Hurt from the hope
That you held in your hand
Starting to see
This is getting us nowhere
Hurt from the hope
That you held in your hand
Can you take more
Take more all I ask for
Can you make sure
Make sure I come after
Can you take more
Take more all I ask for
Can you make sure
Make sure I come after
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