Life on the margins
Little looks we have to steal
I want to run like vagrants hand in hand across this field
But I know the way you are is like a falling to a star
It's not easy for everybody to fall in love
The city walls are reigning perilous and tall
Over dark Turin streets
No, it's not weakness when you fall
Oh it's just too much too fast
Crash that car into a wall
Don't let them tell you that there's a right way to fall in love
And she says
I want to live my life
Don't want to waste my time
I want a man who makes me feel like a woman, I
I used to be your biggest fan
I used to be your biggest fan
Now I find that you are slipping in my estimation, I
I used to be your biggest fan
I used to be your biggest fan
And now I know that you could never love someone like me
I used to run with my whiskers to the sun
I used to shed my weakness like a bullet sheds a gun
But as they closed in on me my foundations came undone
I said, "why oh why is there so much hate in this world?"
Belt out a song, some vicious call-to-arms gone wrong
No pretending now we're going fifty thousand strong
This was your dream so shut your mouth and sing along
Oh the science of music is all stupid and cruel
And I know I want to live my life
Don't want to waste my time
Trying to strike the right lyrical density
I used to be your biggest fan
I used to be your biggest fan
Now I find that you are slipping in my estimation, I
I used to be your biggest fan
I used to be your biggest fan
And now I know that you could never love someone like me
And I know I want to live my life
Don't wanna waste my time
I want to be the toast of the shantytown
You stick around a while
You you cut your teeth
You can't go home
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be your biggest fan
And then I saw you in a doorway
For a moment you looked tender and I knew
That I could never ever ever ever ever ever touch you
'Cause you might touch back
Oh yes, you might, you might touch back
Well I made a mistake, well maybe two
One for me and one for you
And then I knew
That I would measure everybody against you
Yes I would measure everybody against you
Well I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
Your biggest fan
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