Daniel Baby Boy

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 DANIEL (BABY BOY) by KIMYA DAWSON
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[Verse 1]
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I was twelve and things had been
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Pretty okay up till then
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The only deaths I’d experienced
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Were of pets and the grandparents of
 my friends

[Verse 2]
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I was in gifted and talented
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Until right around the seventh grade
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But that is when everything changed
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And I had to flip a switch and shut 
off my brain

[Chorus]
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Cause if I thought too much
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I’d get sick to my stomach
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And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

[Verse 3]
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Cause that is when I realized that
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Even little babies die and
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I had to build a wall inside to
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Keep me from losing my mind

[Verse 4]
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He was only nine months old
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A kid I’d babysit and hug and hold
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And I would tickle his toes and pat 
his head
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And watch his chest rise and fall as
 he slept in his crib

[Bridge]
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And then my dad said late last night
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A drunk driver hit their car he 
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didn’t survive
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And his mom was hurt bad but his dad
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 is alright
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His big brother is fine cause he 
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stayed at the party
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Yeah yeah steven is fine cause he 
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stayed at the party

[Chorus]
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And if I thought too much
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I’d get sick to my stomach
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And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

[Verse 5]
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Sometimes things happen when we 
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are small
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That we just don’t have the tools 
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to deal with at all
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So we bottle them up and we just 
don’t see
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How the stuff that we stuff will 
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affect who we’ll be

[Verse 6]
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What protects us as kids slowly 
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makes us insane
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So I’m trying to dismantle 
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barricades
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Brick by brick in an attempt to set 
free my brain
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Brick by brick in an attempt to set 
free my brain
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And I just hope that my heart is 
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stronger now
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So much stronger than it was when I 
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was twelve

[Chorus]
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When if I thought too much
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I’d get sick to my stomach
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And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

[Verse 7]
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And I’d sing ‘Daniel’ again and 
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again
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And pretend you were just traveling 
on a plane
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Quarter century later it’s still 
hard to take
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But with every red tail light I 
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scream out your name
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Yeah with every red tail light I 
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scream out your name
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Yeah with every red tail light I 
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scream out your name

[Other]
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I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
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I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
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I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy