[Intro]
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl
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[Verse]
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Back, back, way back
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I used to front like Angkor Wat, Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam
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While home in New York was champagne and disco
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Tapes from L.A. slash San Francisco
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But actually Oakland and not Alameda
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Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader
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Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman
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I was a hoarder but girl, that was back then
[Bridge]
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[Chorus]
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The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
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What you on about?
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I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
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I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
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Such a modest mouse
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I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone
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Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl
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[Verse]
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Ancestors told me that their girl was better
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She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather
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I just ignored all the tales of a past life
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Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
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And punks who would laugh when they saw us together
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Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather
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I can still see them there huddled on Astor
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Snow falling slow to the sound of the Master
[Chorus]
Bb Bbmaj7 Gm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
F
What you on about?
Eb Bb Eb F
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
Bb Bbmaj7 Gm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
F
Such a modest mouse
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I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone
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[Verse]
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Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth
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Age is an honour - it's still not the truth
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We saw the stars when they hid from the world
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You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
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Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
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The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her
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We don't know the true death - the true way of all flesh
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Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet
[Chorus]
Bb Bbmaj7 Gm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
F
What you on about?
Eb Bb Eb F
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
Bb Bbmaj7 Gm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
F
Such a modest mouse
Eb Bb Eb F
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone
Bb Bbmaj7 Gm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
F
What you on about?
Eb Bb Eb F
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
Bb Bbmaj7 Gm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
F
Such a modest mouse
Eb Bb Eb F
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone
Bb Bbmaj7 Gm F
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl
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