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Artist: Wye Oak
Canonical path: /wye-oak/civilian
Related lyric paths: 6
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Civilian
Read Civilian lyrics by Wye Oak on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Civilian
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I am nothing without pretend
I know my thoughts
Can't live with them
I am nothing without a man
I know my faults
But I can't hide them
I still keep my baby teeth
In the bedside table with my jewelry
You still sleep in the bed with me
My jewelry, and my baby teeth
I don't need another friend
When most of them
I can barely keep up with them
Perfectly able to hold my own hand
But I still can't kiss my own neck
I wanted yo give you everything
But I still stand in awe of superficial things
I wanted to love you like my mother's mother's mother did
Civilian, civilian
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