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Hold you back 'I saved your life', went a little far this time

You got clipped, they ran away and let the heat die off

Truth is cruel and you were the pray, carrion when the crowds all faded

Esoteric Monday mornings brought out the worst in them

Now nineteen and five years old is where I seem to be

I lied last time, by you I meant I, some purposeful deceit

Looking through new Polaroids my brother takes of my mistakes

Before I try to sleep it off and breathe, realising who's to blame

I don't owe you anything at all

I don't owe you anything at all

One day that keeps creeping up, is the one where I wish I was drunk

Turned around to find you stood before the big wheel line

My parents laughed as your rents joked, how was I to know they spoke?

A beretta for a smile and blinkers in your pocket to hide their eyes

I don't owe you anything at all

I don't owe you anything at all

(Everything is simple is what I used to pretend

A scene each of day of illness, prey and how things always end

A face, a name, something to keep on using, "please take away the ache"

The reasons that I tell myself you used to get along each day

And now sat mute on the sofa with so much left to do

A nearly perfect stillness just past the corner of the room

Is home to all the reason and retort and empty threats

That now if I could catch you I'd stand up for younger self

I can see the picture of the bulldogs in my head

They'd only finished running just to watch my timely death

Death not opposed to living, but the ending of my grit

For that day oh not only, oh for now it just persists

Now even when I'm playing, cooking, drinking, kissing, crying, living you're still in there

Don't take that as glory, it's just faceless imprints on the window, beyond I always stare

If there's any change, a rearrange, a lease of something new

Usually I'd be first in line to offer out a hand or two

But I feel pretty sober with every other living thing

Degrees of easy going with all the backbone I can wring

So just this once sure I think if the big woman is real

She'll let me off for not excusing all you had to deal

But what if it's how it was supposed to go and be

Nah that's always a lie to me and that statement I made previously

Was just a joke, a hoax, a coax, hysterical affair

One could say the truth is there was never any care

Children only children, could ever get so cruel

Is it all a workout or a testing of the truths?

Either way the dread of ever trying to return, snap back

Retaliate, riposte, attack has all began to fade)

Back there on the left in the smoke of your friend's cigarette

Looking less Beretta and more bereft, Something changed the wind

Whatever it was, did it happen fast? Or did they make it last?

I've seen that face myself before from all those yesterdays

A midnight box of matches, now that might do the trick

Is what you had me thinking then and I might still think at twenty-six

Just got caught across the way, it returned, familiar face

There I was sat hoping, hoping that you'd learned someday so

I don't owe you anything at all

I don't owe you anything at all

I don't owe you anything at all

I don't owe you anything at all