Album: The Airborne Toxic Event (2009)
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  • Five, six, seven, eight!

    All the time, awake
    You're still on my mind
    But we were on our own
    Almost all the time

    And she'll step away
    For a second or two
    And I close my eyes
    And I think of you

    We were only seventeen
    We were holding in our screams
    Like we'd torn it from the pages
    Of some lipstick magazine
    And you scratch and turn
    And say, "let's burn ourselves up 'til we scream"
    Like gasoline

    Those tender days
    At your mother's house
    And your father would find
    My hand inside your blouse

    But they tell me that
    You're married now
    Oh my dear, I fear
    I can't understand how

    We were only seventeen
    We were holding back our screams
    Like we'd torn our lives from the pages
    Of some girly magazines
    And you scratch and turn
    And say, "let's burn these sheets down to the seams"
    Like gasoline

    I was only twenty one
    I wasn't having any fun
    And the words you said
    Tore through my head
    Like bullets from a gun
    And I should a just shown up and said,
    "Get in this car, let's run"

    And these years have seen
    So many imitations turning green
    Each like the last, they go right past,
    Like credits on a screen
    But your memory blazes through me
    Burning everything
    Like gasoline
    Like gasoline
    Like gasoline Writer/s: MIKEL FRANS JOLLETT, NOAH HARMON
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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