Kimya Dawson – For Katie (Guitar)

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They can't be talking about me

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This isn't real

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How can I stop the nothing?

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I'm just a little girl

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Three thousand miles between most of your friends

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And you wish they could meet they have so much in common

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And you can't believe that you are in Portland

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With your good friend from New York on vacation

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The world it is shrinking, pathways intertwining

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Some of its planning

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A lot of its timing

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Suddenly face to face with Jake and Jack

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You ask them to sing you their songs back to back

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Jack says "I'm alone but I'm not scared"

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Then Jake says "I am alone but not afraid"

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I wish I could be that brave

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But the second person's always in the way

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I tried to hide you

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Where they couldn't find you

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You were a baby and I was a little girl

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They caught us and brought us back to their world

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That's when I decided the only place I could hide

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Was in the stories and dreams in the seams of my mind

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I was so busy dreaming, running from demons

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I didn't even hear you screaming

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Yesterday you got an email from Prague

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That said me and my friends think your band really rocks

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You can't believe it's all really real

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You don't know what to say, you don't know how to feel

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You think it's a joke just like in the sixth grade

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When Nick asked you out then he laughed in your face

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You prepare for the worst when you go out on stage

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You block out the crowd, you dissociate

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The music's your blood and the words are your breath

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You sing and you sing like it's all there is left

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Rock-a-bye baby, beautiful thing

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Don't ever, ever let them clip your wings

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When the best and the worst coexist there's a fistfight

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Between what's left and the right of way

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I hope you believe me when I say

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Things will get better give it one more day

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It's hard to sleep when the lullabies are songs

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You don't want to miss you could listen all night long

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And you can't believe that you are in Texas

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And Jeff "Lightning" Lewis is sitting right next to you

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Singing the song about the three-quarter moon

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You squint your eyes and look inside you

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And the fractions and fragments all become whole

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And the music erases the pain in your soul

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The tears in your brain that your memory saved

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Evaporate and skate away