Family Farm

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St. Catherine's was a nightmare
 You know they took away my headphones
 Sure they let you keep your handset
 But the courtyard is a dead zone
 And the nurse that they assigned me had Eruption as her ring tone
 Blasting out through built in speakers like it's bug spray
 Buzzing like a hornet halfway blown
 If you're still in Pennsylvania
 I'd advise you not to leave
 Take some nickels from the fountain
 Make your friends and fall asleep
 Let your sins be of omission
 I wish you wouldn't engage with all these creeps
 Because they're never going to love you that
 one specific way that you want them all to love you
 The way you want them to love you
 With a flexible schedule and a willingness to trade your medications
 The way you want them to love you
 Obsessive and controlling and coming up on total suffocation
 She came into the cantina singing This Must Be The Place
 Said faithful has its limits I just want to see his face
 Before she took her shot she said a little grace
 Said Lord grant me the power to stop these hands from shaking
 I'd been falling in the fountain since a week or so before
 I'd been rattled by the accident
 My shoulders were still sore
 I almost rolled my eyes when they asked me how to score
 But sometimes it feels sweet to be the teacher
 When she was combing through the carpet I could not resist her charms
 She brought me to a fortress she called the family farm
 Out along the towers there were guards with heavy arms
 I guess there was some tension with the neighbors
 Tripping at the airstrip
 Drinking on the runway
 Laughing at the jets as we watched them fly away
 She said you get what you get when you push too far ahead
 They put us in these places for a reason
 The way you want them to love you
 Shaking your head with resignation masquerading as wisdom
 Leaning on the lamp post just jangling the keys to the kingdom
 Listing in the lobby of a hotel on the highway
 Not sure you even want to be rescued
 Because they're never going to love you that
 one specific way that you want them all to love you
 And you want them all to love you

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Duration
03:43
Key
2
Tempo
150 BPM

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