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Drivers out on the bridge
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Slowing down as they go through a lane shift
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Wires snap
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Concrete gives
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Metal twisting
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And everything tumbling
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At the end of the work day
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Stuck in traffic, don't feel when the road sways
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Underneath
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Concrete gives
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Metal twisting
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And everything tumbling
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To their partners and kids
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Don't suspect anything 'til the bridge splits
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Wires snap
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Concrete gives
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Metal twisting
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And everything tumbling down
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Where I sat, I saw brake lights flash
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And I pictured them, all the people
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Their faces in free fall, the water beneath
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I pushed my palms against the table hard to see if it hurt
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Were it glass, would I have shattered it?
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Could I battle every impulse to panic and then win
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Swim out through the metal twisting
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Upward like a sculpture or some terrible beast?
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People trapped in their cars
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Put both feet on the glass and then kick hard
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Water pours in
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Seatbelts twist
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River flowing
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And everything going down
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People under the water line
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Workers sift through the wreckage of it, find
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Seatbelts stuck
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Water fills up
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River flowing
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And everything going downstream
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On the dining room wall, I watched it
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Play in the reflection of the television
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The reversal in the mirror hung, I could see it all
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How the dust clouds gather color as they billow out
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Shades change shifting in the night
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From the lights atop an ambulance
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Like a firework's flash, then that otherworldly glow
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In the smoke thrown in the aftermath blows
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Almost frozen for a moment there
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I could see it all
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Every dust cloud
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Shattered glass
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Billow out on the TV
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Wires snap
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And the concrete gives
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Metal twists up and onward
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I can see it all
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Every dust cloud
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Shattered glass
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Billow out on the TV
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Wires snap
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And the concrete gives in
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Metal twists up and onward, I watch
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And I can see it all
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All the wreckage
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All the cars piled
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In the river and the rail yard
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The metal twists
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Wires snap
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Concrete blocks split
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And dangle from tie rods
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And metal twists up
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Wires sway
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When a breeze blows
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In the distant
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Sirens glow
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I can see it all
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Where they look for survivors
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Searchlights float
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Change the color of smoke clouds
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And shadows still fall
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People under the water
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People trapped in their cars
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Kick and try to get out
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People still with their seat belts on
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Pets they had in the back
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And car seats
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And I watch it on TV lying down here
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On the floor in the dining room, reversed in the mirror
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Where I know I'm not dreaming now
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But I know I've been sleeping
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I just don't know since when
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I only know that it's light outside
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I only know that the rent is still late
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When did they find out the concrete gave?
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When did they learn that the wires snapped?
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________
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Name 35
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Artist La Dispute
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Album Rooms of the House
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