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Nerve

He was cold out alone He was always talking in my mind tone And oh he wasn't trying at all To be a man in a million A man with golden heart

But ohh and he looked at his life And saw a great mind mourning the wrong time

I gave it all I lost my nerve The life, the love I lost my nerve The sympathy for tragedy It's taking control

Oh he'd rather stay home And take greasy thoughts from his popcorn box And oh TV for company In the wall of his own In his bed I must agree

Yeah it's though to see how life can be It's just a bed you're so cold I was trying so hard to be a man in a million A man with a golden heart

I gave it all I lost my nerve The life, the love I lost my nerve The sympathy for tragedy It's taking control The sympathy for tragedy

Chase your whole world down and see it so wrong x8

I gave it all I lost my nerve The life, the love I lost my nerve The sympathy for tragedy It's taking control

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