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CRUSH, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX
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you know
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i used to love it when you hugged me
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from the back
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your fingertips gently placing
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butterflies in my stomach until i
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realized
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that’s where you do everything behind my
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back
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rewind to the day your ex-friend
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unleashed all your infidelities on me
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like a semi-automatic rifle
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my heart racing attempting to catch its
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own beat
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she cheated on you with the girl at a
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job bro and the guy at henderson’s
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chicken ball
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she wanted your best friend bob when she
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said she went out of town without a
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whole girl
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she really was a nfl player oh
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bullets of betrayal spraying rounds
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faster than i could blink
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ripping through my flesh black blood
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spilling from the holes you left in our
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family
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flashes of my pictures with the kids you
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left shredded
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on the kitchen floor but don’t worry
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i’ll survive in this story wrap up my
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wounds and layers of self-respect
0:57
cleansed with the love of god there will
0:59
be no more infections here
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if you want to know the truth i never
1:04
fell in love with you
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but your daughters my little monkeys
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they climbed every inch of my heart
1:10
it was the loss of your children that
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had my sanity sinking into a mattress to
1:14
dead cells for months
1:16
you played the role of a doctor for a
1:18
while
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giving me doses of them to revive me
1:22
only to discontinue my prescription just
1:24
as it was beginning to do the trick
1:27
one day it clicked i got up washed those
1:30
dead cells from my sheets and started
1:32
downing fresh
1:33
you noticing the difference in me
1:35
evolved into a fisherman
1:37
trying to hook me again wanting to
1:39
pierce my scarred flesh as close to my
1:41
heart as possible
1:42
just to yank the hook and throw me back
1:45
i never understood fishing for sport
1:49
but it seems you have lost your touch
1:53
no longer falling for your bait
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