Song For Our Daughter

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Though they may want you to tread in their trail
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Only to see if the path they set fails
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Though they may want you to take off your clothes
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Whatever they think that the action exposed

[Bridge]
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With your clothes on the floor
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Taking advice from some old balding bore
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You'll ask yourself, "Did I want this at all?"

[Chorus]
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       Do you remember what I said?
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   The book I left by your bed
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   The words that some survivor read


[Verse 2]
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Lately I've been thinking about our daughter growing old
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All of the bullshit that she might be told

[Bridge]
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There's blood on the floor
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Maybe now you'll believe her for sure

[Chorus]
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She remembers what I said
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The book I left by her bed
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    The words that some survivor read


[Verse 3]
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Though they may take you for all you had left
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You won't be forgotten for what you had not done yet
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So you wished for a kiss from God
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And you mourned in your childish loss
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Innocence gone but it's not forgot
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You'll get your way through it somehow

[Chorus]
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You remember what I said
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The book you left by your bed
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The words that will outlive the dead


[Outro]
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