Do it again, she said to me, so I nailed my hand to the baseboard floor
Hysterically, laughing at me, she begged the question and I begged for more
Now I water, the thorn you rammed, deep into my side watch it fertalize
Cause you shoved your finger, right down my throat, and you make me puke up all of my pride
Pop the Beach Balls, burn the photos
C-4 your safe, and you'll never grow old
So get out of dodge, and become a thought
Cause once you're a thought, hopefuly you're forgot
If we break up, don't write a song, that would drag my name through the shit, the mud
Cause I've seen some solid swimmers who drowned, when you unleashed the dam and caused the flood
But with free choice, there comes freewill, and I'm so happy she decided to leave
Cause now I'm alone, the demons come home, and now my pen is rolling up it's sleeve
Pop the Beach Balls, burn the photos
C-4 your safe, and you'll never grow old
So get out of dodge, and become a thought
Cause once you're a thought, hopefuly you're forgot
Pop the Beach Balls, burn the photos
C-4 your safe, and you'll never grow old
So get out of dodge, and become a thought
Cause once you're a thought, hopefuly you're forgot
Because my morals have begun to decay, and all my friends have the same thing to say
They say that good times have faded away, they say that their all worried about me
Cause I feed birds in the cemetery, and I rake leaves off the grass in my grave
Because my memory lain is now paved
Nothing wrong
My memory lain is now paved
There's nothing wrong
My memory lain is now paved
Nothing wrong
My memory lain is now paved
There's nothing wrong
But now my memory's back and there's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong
I said there's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong


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    ha this has got to be on of my favourite billy talent songs. basically i think he's looking back on a realtionship..and such. "If we break up, don't write a song, that would drag my name through the shit, the mud Cause I've seen some solid swimmers who drowned, when you unleashed the dam and caused the flood"

    kinda like if you 'write a song' or something it'll screw you over and your not as good as you think you are. (i've seen some solid swimmers who drown)

    RuthLesson October 03, 2004   Link

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