Penelope Scott – Elongated Muskrat (Ukulele)

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[Verse]
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I come from scientists and athiests and white men who killed god

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They made technology, high quality, complex physiological

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experiments and sacrilige in the name of public good

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They taught me everything just like a daddy should.

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And you were beautiful and vulnerable and power and success.

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goddamn I fell for you, your rocket ships, your flamethrowers and tech

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I studied code because I wanted to do something great like you

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and the real tragedy is half of it was true.
[Pre-Chorus]
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But we've been fucking mean, we're elitist, we're as flawed as any church

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And this faux-rad West coast dogma has a higher fucking networth

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I bit the apple cause I trusted you, it tastes like Thomas Malthus

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your proposal is immodest and insane

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And I hope someday Selmers rides her fucking train
[Chorus]
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I loved you, I loved you, I loved you. It's true.

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I wanted to be you and do what you do

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I lived here, I loved here, I thought it was true.

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I feel so stupid, and so used.

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   I feel so used
[Verse]
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I was your baby, your first born. The hot girl in your Comp-Sci class

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and I was Darwin's prep school dream. Bred, born, and raised to kick your ass.

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I fell for circuit boards, rocket ships, pictures of the stars

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if you could only be what you pretend you are

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When I said take me to the moon I never meant take me alone

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I thought if mankind toured the sky it meant that all of us could go

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But I don't want to see the stars if they're just one more piece of land

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for us to colonize, for us to turn to sand.
[Pre-Chorus]
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Cause we're so fucking mean, we're so elitist, we're as fucked as any church

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And this faux-rad West coast dogma has a higher fucking networth

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I bit the apple cause I loved you, and why would you lie?

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and then I realized you're just as naive as I am.

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Oh you're so traumatized, it makes me wanna cry. YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER
[Chorus]
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I loved you, I loved you, I loved you. It's true.

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I wanted to be you and do what you do

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I lived here, I loved here, I thought it was true.

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I feel so stupid, and so abused.
[Verse]
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Well I don't wanna eat the rich, I'd have to eat my heroes first

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and my tuition's paid by blood, I might deserve your fate or worse

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But I don't need your goddamn money, I don't need jackshit from you.

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So when I speak you bet your life my words are true.

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Let me level with you man as someone else who played the game

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I took help, I took the cash, I would have taken your last name.

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So if any girl on earth should get to make a call about this

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it should be me, and as I see it, you're a dick
[Bridge]
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so fuck your tunnels, fuck your cars, fuck your rockets, fuck your cars again

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you promised you'd be Tesla, but you're just another Eddison

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cause Tesla broke his patent, all you ever broke were hearts

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I can't believe you tore humanity apart

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with the very same machines that could have been our brand new start
[Chorus]
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And the worst part is I loved you, I loved you, I loved you. It's true.

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And sometimes I think maybe I still do

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I lived here, I loved here, I bought it. It's true.

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I'm so embarassed, I feel abused.
[Outro]
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  I feel so used

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 I feel so used.

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take me to the moon

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cause I feel so used.

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I  feel so used