Kimya Dawson – My Mom (Guitar)

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Have you ever had a dream

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and you grab him by his sweater sleeve and pull him up on to the ground and

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you can hear the water slosh around inside his tiny gut

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push his belly up and down but he can't cough the water up

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suddenly a flood comes out his mouth till there is nothing left inside of him,

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and he goes limp in your arms

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all the people's mouths are moving 

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all you hear are car alarms

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and you wake up and start to cry

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I will lose my shit if even one more person I know dies,

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so please don't die.

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My mom's sick she's in a hospital bed

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I've got a word for all you ghosts in her head

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and all you skeletons in her closet

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leave her alone

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leave her alone

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leave her alone, please

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because my mom needs you gone

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my mom needs you gone

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as long as she is haunted she'll never get strong

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my mom needs you gone

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you traded all your paper clips for a soap dish that way

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your best friend's rubber ducky wouldn't slip and slide away

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but he traded his rubber duck for a cigar box to place your paper clips in

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Mr. Hooper came to say,

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"Oh, my dear friends, Bert and Ernie,

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here's a little something for each of you from me

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here are your paper clips and here's your rubber ducky

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how could I ignore such selfless generosity?"

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the human body's made up of good and bad bacteria

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but the antibiotics and the antibacterials are killing all the good ones

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and the bad ones just get stronger and become super infections

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it's harder to destroy them and it's harder to detect them

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and there's something in her blood

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and there's something in her leg

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and there's something in her brain

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my mom's sick she's in a hospital bed

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I've got a word for all you ghosts in her head

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and all you skeletons in her closet

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leave her alone,

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leave her alone,

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leave her alone,

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leave her alone,

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leave her alone,

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leave her alone, 

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leave her alone, please

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because my mom needs you gone

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my mom needs you gone

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as long as she is haunted, she'll never get strong,

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my mom needs you gone

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my mom needs you gone

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my mom needs you gone.