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[The pauses between some of the lines]

What you're looking for is never what you find *1

Nothing ever seems to turn out right *1

Still running around still searching

all these long indifferent streets

For your lover or some cover

to protect you from the heat

That you feel inside *2

inflamed since you learned to cry

Ever since you learned to walk you ran away *1

kept running till you couldn't feel your legs *1

Now you stumble round this drunken town

pawn shops and titty bars

telling tales of just how far you got

But they'll all know who you are

Yeah you're not so great *2

You're just early out of the gate

there's a portrait of your mom when she was young *1

Her face was shining brightly as the sun *1

The son who got away from her

but came back home again

to find a women wrapped

with all this love she couldn't give

But you know she did *2

You just couldn't feel it then

Found a birthday card from this lady I used to know *1

It said boy you're really starting to get old *1

She's the mother of my mother

I knew just what she meant

She'd been through it before

she'd known of all of this resentment

becomes regret *2

I just hadn't gotten there yet *1

Nothing ever seems to turn out right

No never, never seems to turn out right

So I leave it at this *2

my deepest regret