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Now
you'll have to be
hurt when you think of me
with vision but you can't see
far

You hide
everything you can
but the world keeps breaking through
anywhere you run
and it always will
before I knew I had you
you were gone

Fake
too close to the truth
Break when I look at you
You feel how I never knew
Why

I hide
everything I can
but the world keeps breaking through
anywhere I run
and it always will
Before I knew I had you
you were gone

You fake
too close to the truth
Break when I look at you
Oh

You hide
everything you can
but the world keeps breaking through
anywhere you run
and it always will
Before I knew I had you
you were gone

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one_small_instrument On Oct 10, 2002

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16y ago

Heard this song today for the first time in forever. It made me think of a girl from my college days. It was one of those situations where we never seemed to be into each other at the same time. By the time I got a clue that she was a great girl, and I should give her a shot, she was way over me. By the time she got re-interested she had graduated ad was getting ready to move cross country, and I was too full of stupid pride to ask her to stay. The stupidity of youth...

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