Padriac My Price

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I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub
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Before he had ever learned how to talk, and I don’t know what his name was
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But my mother does, I heard her say it once

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Padriac, my prince, I've all but died from the sheer weight of my shame
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You cried but no one came and the water filled your tiny lungs
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Appear, my dear, and cry for me it was six years ago today
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That we laid you in your grave, your sweet young skin was shining then too


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And so tonight to celebrate, I will, I will poison myself
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Another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning


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So I close the door and rest my head on the tile floor
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Sickness and sleep turning me cold, I'm still not sure
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If there's some better place I could be heading towards
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Where the selfishly sick and self absorbed are welcome


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I saw the future once, I was drunk in a phone booth
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My eyes were wet and red I could not tell what was said
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And through the screams of the traffic, voices carried, saying, "Im sorry"


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On a day so gray it's black inside watching churches on T.V.
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In a coma you don’t dream you just hope that someone sits with you
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Babies turn blue when they're ignored like the sky on summer days
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Before you turn and walk away it has changed you


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So tonight to compensate, I will, I will poison myself
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Another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning.