When The Flies Fell

Verse 1:
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I see the slashes on your legs
          G                 Em
And the smile on your face again
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Blood is drying on your fingernails
          G                    Em
Laughing at something that I said
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Were you still sitting 'hind the stairs
           G                        Em
With the new boy in your hair when I left?
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You seem to recognize my face
       G                         Em
But my hands feel like somebody else's
 
Chorus:
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  I blanked last night when you told me
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  I blanked last night when you told me twice
 
  I blanked last night when you told me
Em
  I blanked last night when you told me twice
 
Verse 2:
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You cut your hair off with a blade
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Didn't want a single trace, that poor girl
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The water couldn't get you clean
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So you burned your skin instead with the curl -You live in your hell-
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I watched an angel cut the sky
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Feathers plucked from flight -Just to torture yourself-
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And she sunk right through the ground
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From colossal heights -Tell me, what could I do?-
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When she cried out for my name
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I didn't hesitate -The moment when the flies fell-
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I screamed, "I cannot be your saint
                      Em
I know you can't be saved"
 
Chorus:
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  I blanked last night when you told me
Em                                        G
  I blanked last night when you told me twice
 
  I blanked last night when you told me
Em
  I blanked last night when you told me twi—
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  I blanked last night when you told me
Em                                        G
  I blanked last night when you told me twice
 
  I blanked last night when you told me
Em
  I blanked last night when you told me twice