Storyline Fever

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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On occasion, we all do battle with motivational paralysis
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Unable to perform some simple task
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Trapped at the stage of analysis
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Thoughts of the shortness of life may beget
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Bouts of shortness of breath in your chest
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Doubts about the worth of the nights you got left
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Crowding out all but fear and regret


[Chorus]
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You got storyline fever, storyline flu
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It's filtering how everything looks to you
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Don't you reckon it's affecting your attitude?
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Storyline fever got its hooks in you
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Storyline fever got its hooks in you


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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You took your love to the marketplace
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In the wanting corner of a Western state
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Where every other shopper is a basket case
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Just relies on the horizon, forms a frowning face
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Hanging around those haunts at night
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Where half the clientele was part poltergeist
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Grinding an axe against all that exists
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Minus their protected exceptions to it


[Chorus]
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You got storyline fever, storyline flu
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Apparently impairing your point of view
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It's making horseshit sound true to you
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Now it's impacting how you're acting too
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Now it's impacting how you're acting too


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Got a comb over cut circa Abscam sting
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Make a better Larry than Lizard King
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But you got to find a way to make it work
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'Cause your feet is where your demons lurk
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When you're seller and commodity
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You gotta sell yourself immodestly
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Turn your pedestal into a carving board
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If that's what the audience is starving for


[Chorus]
         G                 C
You got storyline fever, storyline flu
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It's filtering how everything looks to you
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Don't you reckon it's affecting your attitude?
  F
Storyline fever got its hooks in you
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Storyline fever got its hooks in you


[Outro]
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