Hanging bones like paper dolls

And posing by museum walls

A forest of quotation marks

Where minnows masquerade as sharks

And every line is well rehearsed

And everyone in line is first it's

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Almost like you really care

Almost like you really hear

Almost like you're really there

Almost like you're really here

Dressed just like a skeptic

But you tow the party line

You have no dialectic but

You know the secret sign

And every line is well rehearsed

And everyone in line is first it's

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Outskirts and concentric rings

follow you they follow you

Shallow cuts and childish things

follow you they follow you

Scratch the surface just like this

follow you it followed you

Shadows of a class dismissed

followed you it followed you

While it's no surprise I'll try to be

Kind to your disguise just another

Plot to subdivide passenger

Just waiting for a ride down around the

Corner now they say that you never

Ever saw the train leave without you

Try to place a call to that picture

Hanging on the wall same old message

No one there at all there's no answer

Scripture known by rote by this time there's

Nothing left to quote but your skin a

Scribbled sheet for notes incoherent

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Charm will steal your time

Just as time will steal your charm