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leave the car running, i'm (still) not ready to go.
A note before we begin-
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Monica Ek
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we never did too much talking anyway
but don’t think twice, it’s all right.
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forgive me // give it to me
tell me what to do, t-tell me what to do, t-t-to keep it.
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i'm always running from something
i push it back but it keeps on coming
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i'm overmatched / i'm half as wise
If this is flat, brother, I apologize. — I am not a runner. I can count the number of times I’ve run in the last year on one hand. On one finger. I ran…
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can i get another year?
must i be so damn severe?
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there must be more to life than being on time
Two nights before I turned 33, I left work to find a hawk tearing a bird apart in the parking lot, the disembodied feathers catching on the breeze. One…
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you've got to learn to be much stronger
at times your head must rule your heart.
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still set on ten to burn this house down
count the band in, then kick into overdrive…
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Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Five
or, The Doors were just a bunch of jazz nerds and we probably all should be.
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oh, you know i'm still afraid
i’m still crazy and i’m still scared, but if i make it to the stage, i’ll show you what it means to be spared.
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Monica Ek
so count it on your fingers
if we got it wrong it’s ‘cause the days have numbers.
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Monica Ek
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