How You Learn To Live Alone

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First you fall, then you fly
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And you believe that you belong up in the sky.
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Flap your arms as you run.
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Every revolution brings you closer to the sun.
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You fall asleep in motion, in uncharted hemispheres.
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And when you wake up with the stars falling down around your ears.
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And when they hit the ground they're nothing but stone.


[Chorus]

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That's how you learn to live alone.
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That's how you learn to live alone.


[Verse 2]

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Bit by bit, you slip away.
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And lose yourself in pieces and the things you don't say.
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You're not here, but you're still there.
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The sun goes up, the sun goes down, but you're not sure you care.
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You live inside the thoughts 'til you don't recognize the truth.
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People send you pictures and you can't believe it's you.
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And it's been years since your house has felt like home.


[Chorus]

Gm                F              D#
That's how you learn to live alone.
Gm                F               D#
That's how you learn to live alone.


[Verse 3]

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You don't feel right, but it's not wrong.
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It's just hard to start again this far along.
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Brick by brick, the letting go
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As you walk away from everything you know.
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When you release resistance and you lean into the wind,
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The roof begins to crumble and the rain keeps pouring in.
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And you sit there in the rubble 'til the rubble feels like home.


[Chorus]

Gm                F               D#
That's how you learn to live alone.
Gm                F               D#
That's how you learn to live alone.

Gm                F               A#
That's how you learn to live alone.