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Don't call this an art project
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This is science, this is progress
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And don't pretend these are heartfelt words
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We are children dressed as surgeons
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But disturbed by the sight of our scars
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And now we carry scalpels
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To trace the scarring
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Resting somewhere on the line between my house
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Your heart and into your home
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Where you lay sleeping like a ceiling fan in winter
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Gently turning as the wind reaches its fingers through the window
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Just to hold you, like I held you
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Pressed like a rose between my fingers
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Or like stones I keep in pockets
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Meant to weigh me underwater
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Meant to keep me underwater
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I meant to keep me underwater
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These scars will fade away but never disappear, my dear
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We'll raise our fists like lightning rods to god and
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If he strikes us down, then he strikes us down
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But first, let him hear us speak
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We are like the legacy of thunderstorms
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We watched and swore in doorways
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That we would never be the same again
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I can feel you healing and I hate it
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Like a harpist without hands
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You only bang the strings
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You used to love to touch so much
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To hear the dissonance drain violently
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Into the air and then dissolve
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Like all the songs I sang
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But never once could make you smile
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My god, I would kill to make you smile
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My god, I would kill to make you smile
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Oh, my god, I would kill to make you smile
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My god, I would kill to make you smile
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My god, I would kill to make you smile
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My god, I would kill to make you smile, smile, smile
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And reach out to my hands, soft and frail
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To make good on the love that you swear
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Still exists, and still thrives
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Though we've buried our bodies in blood
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And old lies, like, "I'm fine"
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And "You look so much better than him"
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But don't trust the surgeon with your heart
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She's drunk and sips from poison cups
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And don't you trust the scientist
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He says "Life is like a wineglass"
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As he spills his drink, like secrets
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All across your dress and says
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"My dear, I must confess
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I never thought you ever knew
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What love was like for real
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I never thought you needed me"
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Name The Surgeon And The Scientist
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Artist La Dispute
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Album Vancouver
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