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Child keeps its toys hidden away

Till it wants to break them

Take your share and go away

Make sure you get the last word

Sit back out of harm's reach

Watch the little cup of poison

Chasing its own tail around and around

Until it's exhausted at its wits end

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I try my best I wait for you to nail me

Now I try and never do

Anything they tell me

'Cause waiting about an inch

Under human nature

Tragedies and comedies

And a touching sense of failure

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When you held me in your arms

At the limits of your patience

I knew I'd always lose

Every scene of violence

When you held me in your arms

Why didn't you want me

When you held me in your arms

Why didn't you touch me

Well I used to know how

To slip through your blind spot

And now I just watch myself

Set the alarms off

I'm happier now in my shame

And don't look to you for anything

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