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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