Scientist Studies

Death Cab For Cutie

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[Verse 1]

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          What ghosts exist behind these attic walls?

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          There’s got to be a simpler explanation

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                                                ‘cos I

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      scrimped and I saved just to find that they've been splicing my

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    inventions

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          Cold skin and bones and this latitude

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          We ain't paying ‘til the heat comes through

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                                                so you

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      slept in a stocking cap and wool scarf and



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[Chorus 1]

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      Promises   of   payments were u-pon your shoulders constantly but

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      don’t forget to entertain ‘cause this is your first defense

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[Verse 2]

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          Four year offense to the devoted type

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          I may have got an invitation but I wasn't invited

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                                               But I

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      thought that this meant something more than broken hearts and new

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    addictions

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          We'll leave our sins within the carpet twine

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      Our bodies will dissolve the chemicals in due time

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[Chorus 2]

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      don’t forget to entertain ‘cause this is your first defense

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      This is your first defense

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[Other]

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      This is your first defense,     this was your first defense

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      This is my last defense
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Composition: Ben Gibbard

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