Empty Nesters

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Understand the purpose of making
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Everything around you better
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But all those zeroes after this one
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There is no one to destroy your 
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sweater

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I'll try to hum it to you if I can't
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 sing
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My baby wants me back before I even 
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leave
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Smothered and covered by my high 
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school dreams
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Call mom and daddy cause the nest is
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 empty
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And so are you


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Did you meet with your advisor?
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Do you still draw in the margins?
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Bubble letters reading "WHAT FOR?"
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And "I wish I had a stand-in..."

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Let's try to make another year for 
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the teens
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I miss your bangs, can cut them for 
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me
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Smothered and covered by my high 
    Em
school dreams
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Call mom and daddy cause the nest is
Em
 empty
D
And so are you

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Dm (x3)

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