Album: The Airborne Toxic Event (2008)
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  • Missy got off the bus one day
    In a crowd of people, downtown LA
    She looked around as if to say, 'I'm home'
    But I'm home

    I find someone to love
    And some place to drink
    And some time when I can just sit and think
    And I don't mind if I catch the stink of these drones
    Lord, of these drones
    Just as long as I'm never alone

    She had eyes as big as porcelain plates
    And skin as thin as paper drapes
    And she loved the Lord the way an apostate loves songs
    And she'd sing to him before she went to sleep:
    "I pray to you, my soul to keep
    You're shepherd, then I'll be your sheep
    Until dawn, oh until dawn
    Well I'd follow you, even if it was wrong"

    I met her one night at the coffee shop
    Her face so bright, my heart just stopped
    Hello my dear, I fear I'm not what I seem
    Not what I seem
    I should've become a better man
    I should be more deserving than
    The beggar, thief and courtesan I've been
    Oh, that I've been
    But I swear, I lie, I curse all of my dreams

    But I swear there's still some good in me
    And I think if you stuck around you'd see
    All the honest attempts at integrity, I was had
    Maybe if you helped me, I'd get it right
    I lie awake every night, staring at the ceiling
    Wondering why I feel so bad, why I feel so bad
    But I swear, I swear, I swear I'll never get sad Writer/s: MIKEL FRANS JOLLETT
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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  • Connor Rennie from Grangemouth, United KingdomThis song is supposedly meant to be about being "dead broke."
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