I crawled up from under the earth
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Broken nails and coughing dirt
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Spitting out my songs so you could sing along, oh
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And with each bedraggled breath, I knew I came back from the dead
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To show you how it's done, to show you what it takes
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To conquer and to crucify, to become one of the greats
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One of the greats
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I kept a scream inside my chest, killed everyone I'd ever kissed
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Hung them on the wall like trophies, each name, a stain upon my lips
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I told the truth but could never see it through
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You see yourself hung on the wall but that song is not about you
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I wrote down all my fumbling visions transmitted by a television
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Got everything I thought I wanted and cried hungover in a hotel closet
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Did I get it right? Do I win the prize?
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Do you regret bringing me back to life?
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Arms outstretched, back from the dead
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Streetlights bursting overhead
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Arms outstretched, back from the dead
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Streetlights bursting overhead
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I did my best, tried to impress, my childhood dream made flesh
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And my dresses and my flowering sadness, so like a woman to profit from her madness
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I was only beautiful under the lights, only powerful there
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Burned down at thirty-six
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Why did you dig me up for this?
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Arms outstretched, back from the dead
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Streetlights bursting overhead
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Arms outstretched, back from the dead
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Streetlights bursting overhead
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You'll bury me again, you'll say it's all pretend
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That I could never be great being held up against such male tastes
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'Cause who really gets to be one of the greats, one of the greats?
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But I've really done it this time, this one is all mine
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I'll be up there with the man and the ten other women
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And the hundred greatest records of all time
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It must be nice to be a man and make boring music just because you can
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Now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan
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You're my second favorite frontman
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And you could have me if you weren't so afraid of me
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It's funny how men don't find power very sexy
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So this one's for the ladies
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Do I drive you crazy?
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Did I get it right?
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Did I get it right? Do I win the prize?
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Do you regret bringing me back to life?
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Did I get it right? Do I win the prize?
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Do you regret bringing me back to life?
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Arms outstretched, back from the dead
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Streetlights bursting overhead
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Arms outstretched, back from the dead
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Streetlights bursting-
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Too feminine to function
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A pile of bodies and a trail of destruction
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I will let the light in, I will let some love in
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I will be happy, it will be perfect
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I will let the light in, I will let some love in
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I will be happy, it will be perfect
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I will let the light in (arms outstretched, back from the dead)
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Streetlights bursting overhead
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Arms outstretched, back from the dead
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Streetlights bursting overhead
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Arms outstretched, back from the dead
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Streetlights bursting overhead
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Arms outstretched
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Arms outstretched
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Streetlights bursting
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Overhead
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Overhead
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Streetlights bursting
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Overhead
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