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Intro

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Verse

 An experimental phase

 That you couldn't get away from

Your open minded ways did you in

 Your shepherd's broken staff

Should have been your warning

 But you were moving way too fast to notice it

Chorus

 This is a tragedy

 This is loneliness

 Why do you try so hard to climb out of yourself?

 Do you still believe

 You will find a way

 To make your life mean something and stay?

Verse

Were you afraid that you

Would not have a story?

 Were you afraid that you would have no pain?

 This is your private war

 Where you get all the glory

 If you beat the odds to wake and rise again

Chorus

 This is a tragedy

 This is loneliness

 Why do you try so hard to climb out of yourself?

 Do you still believe

 You will find a way

 To make your life mean something and stay?

Bridge

I'm sure that you know this

 Meanwhile, I wish you would say

'On and on I'm holding on to that

Which has betrayed'

Chorus

 This is a tragedy

 This is loneliness

 Why do you try so hard to climb out of yourself?

 Do you still believe

 You will find a way

 To make your life mean something and stay?

Solo

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Outro

 An experimental phase

 That you couldn't get away from

Your open minded ways did you in