Julien Baker – The Modern Leper (Guitar)

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A cripple walks amongst you

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All you tired human beings

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He's got all the things a cripple has not

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Working arms and legs

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And vital parts fall from his system

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And dissolve in Scottish rain

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But vitally, he doesn't miss them

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He's too fucked up to care

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Well is that you in front of me?

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Coming back for even more of exactly the same

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You must be a masochist

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To love a modern leper on his last leg, on his last leg

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Well I crippled your heart a hundred times

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And still can't work out why

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You see, I've got this disease

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I can't shake and I'm just rattling through life

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Well this is how we do things now

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This is how the modern stay scared

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So I cut out all the good stuff

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I cut off my foot to spite my leg

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Well is that you in front of me?

                   B                      C#m
Coming back for even more of exactly the same

A        E           A
You must be a masochist

                   B                C#m
To love a modern leper on his last leg

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Well I am ill but I'm not dead

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And I don't know which of these I prefer

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Because that limb which I have lost

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Well it was the only thing holding me up, holding me up

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Well I'm lying on the ground now

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And you're walking through the only door

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Well I have lost my eyesight like I said I would

        C#m   A
But I still know

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That that is you in front of me

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And you are back for even more of exactly the same

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Well are you a masochist?

                   B                C#m
You love a modern leper on his last leg

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And you're not ill and I'm not dead

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Doesn't that make us the perfect pair?

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You should sit with me and we'll start again

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And you can tell me all about what you did today

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What you did today