This Girl Is Taking Bets

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This Girl is a stencil of a 
brushstroke in the rain
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She's a ghost of the city she's a 
body through the windscreen
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This girl is the snowfall where the 
spring should have been
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She's the stains on the pages of a 
top shelf magazine

This girl is a black eye she's a 
bruise on your knee
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She's the ashes of the people that 
you really meant to be
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This girl's the resurrection she's 
the comeback
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She's the absinthe and whiskey she 
is poetry and Prozac

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This girl is taking bets this girl's
 a silhouette cant you see

Continues after the ad
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This girl is the flutter of fake 
lashes in the mirror
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She's a ragged edged fedora or a 
Spanish souvenir

This girl is the clean cut she's the
 frozen ground
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She's a knife drawn down the side 
street when there's no-one else 
around

This girls a forged ticket to a 
Lloyd Webber show
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She's the far end of the graveyard 
up where the nettles grow
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This girl is the rainbow in the dewy
 eyed stares
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She's the name tag on the toe of 
your long dead love affairs

This girl is taking bets....

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This girl is the wild smile the icy 
stare
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She's the crackle of the static 
she's the curses she's The prayers
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This girl is the junkie in the 
children's matinee
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She's the 4 minute warning
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She is hell to pay

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This girl is the plunge pool she is 
cocaine and Kodak
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Now she's out setting sail on the 
ocean of the soundtrack
This girl is the shaking hand the 
rattling cup
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With a button and a note saying 
things are looking up