To Leave Something Behind

Tom: Bb

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I cannot say that I know you well
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But you can't lie to me with all these books that you sell
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I'm not trying to follow you to the end of the world
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I'm just trying to leave something behind

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Words have come from men and mouse
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But I can't help thinking that I've heard the wrong crowd
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When all the water is gone my job will be too
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And I'm trying to leave something behind

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Oh money is free but love costs more than our bread
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And the ceiling is hard to reach
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Oh the future ahead is broken and red
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But I'm trying to leave something behind

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This whole world is a foreign land
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We swallow the moon but we don't know our own hand
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We're running with the case but we ain't got the gold
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Yet we're trying to leave something behind

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My friends I believe we are at the wrong fight
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And I cannot read what I did not write
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I've been to his house, but the master is gone
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But I'd like to leave something behind

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There is a beast who has taken my blame
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You can put me to bed but you can't feel my pain
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When the machine has taken the soul from the man
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It's time to leave something behind

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Oh money is free but love costs more than our bread
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And the ceiling is hard to reach
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Oh the future ahead is already dead
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But I'm trying to leave something behind

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I got this feeling that I'm still at the shore
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And pockets don't know what it means to be poor
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I can get through the wall if you give me a door
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So I can leave something behind

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Oh wisdom is lost in the trees somewhere
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You're not going to find it in some mental gray hair
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It's locked up from those who hurry ahead
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And it's time to leave something behind

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Oh money is free but love costs more than our bread
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And the ceiling is hard to reach
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When my son is a man he will know what I meant
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I was just trying to leave something behind
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I was just trying to leave something behind