Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – Puddle Stomper (Guitar)

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I can remember sitting around at my house

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And watching the smoke fill the living room

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As you rested your feet on my coffee table

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And we watched something on TV

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Talked about the world

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But the lines were already drawn from the magazines

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And you called me a sponge

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And you were just like diamond coated plastic

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Just plastic, so invincible, so invincible

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But it's not like that at all, it's not like that anymore and I'm not

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Like that anymore

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And I got to hold my breath

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Because the puddle that got you is bound to get me too

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And I shouldn't hold my breath

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Because a sponge like you needs a puddle to go to

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And I, I have breathing room

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Because the puddle in which you fell

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My diamond coated plastic could repel

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Could repel, could repel

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Diamond coated plastic could repel

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Could repel

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My diamond coated plastic could repel

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And I will repel you just like you're one of the others

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And I will expel you just like you're one of the others

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Because you are, one of the others now

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It's kind of weird, I think, the way that people change

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Think you know someone, but you don't, but you can't

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Soak 'em up, soak 'em come up

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Because I don't even care anymore

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Because you'll never be alone

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And I'll always be alone

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Because you're a sponge

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Because you're a sponge

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Because you're a sponge

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Who would ever guess it?

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Not me, not me, but I don't even know anymore

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And how am I to know anymore

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And I, I'm out of breath, because I've been holding it for years

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And holding back the tears

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Please let me catch my breath

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And soak up a puddle there

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And scrambling for air

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I finally got my breath

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And now at least I know for sure

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I'm a puddle stomper, stomper, stomper, stomper, stomper, stomper

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I am a puddle stomper,    stomper

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I'm a puddle stomper

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I'm a puddle stomper

              Em
I'm a puddle stomper

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I'm a puddle stomper

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And you're a sponge

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And you're a sponge

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And you're a sponge

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And you're a sponge

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And you're a sponge

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I'm a puddle stomper now

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I'm a puddle stomper

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I'm a puddle stomper

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And you're a sponge

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And you're a

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I'm a puddle stomper