The Lawrence Arms – Alert The Audience (Guitar)

C
Passive, Aggressive,

Am
Confessing, Repressive

G
Structurally uncertain,

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transparent, transgressive

C
I've stumbled into something

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and I don't know what it is.

    G
All I-beams, bolts and plaster,

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corners painted in piss.

C
Mistakes are the brakes

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that I'm cutting on me.

G
Fast down the hill,

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impossibly free.

C
Faster and faster,

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I'm burning the gears.

    G
My tears are streaming

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back into my ears.

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My enemies I knew too well,

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they bickered amongst themselves.

C
I have a rule,

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I love to break.

G
It ends in tears,

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cursing and shakes.

       C
I'm a clown and i'm choking on

G
blood, teeth and tongue

Am
Fuck the spectators,

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fuck the "he was so young"

      C
Fuck forced sympathy through

G
lifeless glass eyes,

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Povichian voyeurs drinking my cries.

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Fuck faced trilobites waiting to die.

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I can't stand the hu-mor

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and i can't stand the lies.