CARAMIA (Emily Saliers)
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Caramia - a blank notebook and a back pocket fade...
Em
You used to mock me;
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Sometimes I would cry
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When I was home later.
You hurt my feelings:
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Why, why, why?
Em
Write it down in your notebook,
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My wannabe Harriet the spy.
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Some say your genius
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Is in your madness;
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Will you get better?
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And then will you leave us?
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How you mixed with the darkness
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At such a young age!
Em
Until in your chemistry
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Science and violence
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Turned silence to rage.
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Why... are you dreaming this?
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One shoe off, and a bridge to cross over.
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And where is your taxi fare?
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Are you left by yourself
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Or left by your lover?
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For three nights straight now
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I dreamed I kept both of my shoes,
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But I've forgotten my lines, and
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I've misplaced my cues;
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And there's a sea full of faces
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And a show to go on;
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And I'm struck mute at entrance
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With nothing to draw from!
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There were the secrets: the big bang
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And the bigger joke.
Em
You seem to know all of them
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And injustice makes you red with choke.
You love like you're desperate!
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You don't know what love is!
Em
I thought if there was one thing I could give you,
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One thing I could tell you,
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Maybe it was this...
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With your head on the bed board,
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The anguished repeat;
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The sweat of our sadness--
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The twist of the sheets.
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I don't want what's best for you!
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Where would I be if you found it?
Em
I prayed a lot about these bad feelings inside,
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But I can't pray my way through or around it.
I found a lot of this somewhere else and messed around with it a bit. If you are the
transcriber, please let me know.
