If you're taken I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (If you go, you go)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (If you show, you show)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (If you go, you go)
I'm up and doing circles

I collapse
I might stay out longer than I left the light on for you
Then if you show, you show
If you show, you show

When I feel like this
When I get so into myself
I lose track of where I'm going
And lose track of how to get going again
Feel myself slowing down
Feel myself turning around
Is this taken?

When I feel like this
When I get so sick of myself
Where are you going now without me
And not knowing then, that we're slowing down
You've gotta turn that around
And tell me that I'm taken, tell me if I'm yours

You collapse
The pressure of this life is so
You can't be held accountable
If you go, you go
If you go, you go

When you act like this
When you get so sick, of yourself
The whole world falls away and since I feel
Like I have only missed the feeling that I'm here again
The feeling that I'm clear again
I'm not taken

When you act like this
When you get so into yourself
I lose sight of common goals
And letting go so I can be all alone
Feel myself, going slow
Feel myself, letting go

Not taken, not feeling like I'm yours

If you're taken I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (If you go, you go)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (If you show, you show)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (If you go, you go)
I'm up and doing circles

I collapse
This life looks like a sentence, though
A constant game of falling short
If you know, you know
If you know, you know

When I feel like this
When I'm just so sick of feeling less than perfect
Isn't right for me
I never fight to see if coming clean would get to me
I feel myself, holding back
I feel the pressure, it's finally back
I'm taken

When you feel like this
When you saw it call come crashing down
Subtle but not underground
I was there, I saw the signs, I saw unfair
And so I write to you through other means
I let myself finally feel taken
Like I was yours

If you're taken I am yours (I feel taken)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (I feel)
I'm up and doing circles
If you're taken I am yours (I feel taken)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (I feel)
I'm up and doing circles
If you're taken I am yours (I feel taken)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (I feel)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (I feel taken)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (I feel)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (I feel taken)
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours (I feel)
I'm up and doing circles

I collapse
I collapse
I collapse


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    wannabesluts, I felt the same way at first. But after listening to it 50,000 times (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating), it really grew on me. It's kind of haunting, and it's fast-paced, and it just really grows on you. Give it another shot.

    Something that never grew onto me, though, was "Like O, Like h". Just never got into it. Oh well..

    yeahx329on September 19, 2007   Link

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