The Tame The Half-Born The Wild And You

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[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

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If Carolyn called me up today I'd hang up the phone and walk away
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It's not that I don't care anymore but time changes locks on a lot of doors
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And I know what you're thinking and it's true
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Sometimes there is nothing you can do
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But there's a time that I recall, a purple street in Lisbon
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She was speaking dreams to me and I thought I was listening
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But I was fifteen yards away before I felt the distance
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She cried in Augusta street and stared into the windows
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And I know what she's thinking and it's true
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Sometimes there is nothing she can do
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Carolyn is tamed...

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All those years and all those tears
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Cuddling her insecure
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And shaking like a child and feeling selfless
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But maybe I share the blame


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 2]

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Peter has a fan club, he's a whiskey-haloed Christian
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And he's in love with everyone as long as they keep listening
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And there's a hole in my old faith where he belongs
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But, the whole of me has never been that strong
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Peter is half-born...

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With one foot in and one foot out
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A princess on a barstool
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Anarcho- Commun- Liberat- ingratiating stranger to me now


[Bridge]

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Close friends and passersby, love affairs and suicides
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Sex and drugs and crash n' burn decisions, politics and prostitute religions
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Fucking at the movies or fighting in the street


[Verse 3]

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Christopher's a scapegoat cause he lives like a poem
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And they want explanations but I just want to know him
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Not for what he claims to be or what they say he isn't
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Just because he's got the balls to make his own decisions
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And sometimes the pain he's feeling is so real
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Sometimes that is all I need to feel
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Christopher is wild...

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With fire-escape guitar afflictions
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Different lives but shared addictions
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Late night taxi, Frank Black happy birthdays
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And blood-pact butchers knives


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 4]

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Amsterdam, the sex museums and the New York City subway
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Vancouver in November, and Montreal on Monday
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We'll get a fix in Union Square we'll drop at CBGB's
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And if we can't find salvation there, we'll stay home and watch the TV
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And I'll be your disciple if you'll be mine
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And we'll make love in the moaning summertime
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Cause you are beautiful...