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I don't know why
You're looking like an agita
You were my, you were mine today
I don't know why
I'll maybe someday
learn how you wanted me falling anyway.

But now it's changed.
Doesn't it seem strange?
Now it's strange.
Doesn't it seem to see the change
The change, the change, the change the change oh no

I don't know why
I even listen anymore
I can't trust you
I can't believe a single word you say

I don't know why I even hold you up
in the highest esteem above all these dreams

But isn't that how you wanted me falling every way
Yeah, isn't that how you wanted me falling every way
away away a way a way ohhh no

I'm not going anymore
No no no no no
I'm not going anymore anymore anymore anymororo

I don't know why
You're looking like an agita
You were my, you were mine today.
I don't know why
I'll maybe someday
learn how you wanted me falling anyway.

You were my, you were mine today
You were my, you were mine today
mine today

I don't know why you were mine today.

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xtinofbig On Aug 09, 2014

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