Optimistic Son

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I was an optimistic son 
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Excited to love 
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Then my parents told the truth 
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"Evil from youth" 
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Do I have the strength to stare down these eyes 
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Until it turns back to a face I recognize?  

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What would you hear if I told you that I need you 
       A                E 
With a need too deep to speak? 
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Would the ceiling fall and the walls cave in 
                          
From a secret too big to keep? 
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If I fell down at your doorstep naked 
          A                    E 
Would you take me in and cover me? 
D        A         E 
Dress my skin in a fresh coat of blood 
                      
Here I am for you to see  

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I was an incubating heart 
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In your arms, in the dark 
       E 
I fell out while you were asleep 
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In the viscra of your dreams 
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And you wiped off my face and you gav me a name 
      Am      E        A                   D 
Added up to a son that could take away the shame, but 
 

 
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What would you hear if I told you that I need you 
       A                E 
With a need too deep to speak? 
D                 A            E 
Would the ceiling fall and the walls cave in 
                          
From a secret too big to keep? 
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If I fell down at your doorstep naked 
          A                    E 
Would you take me in and cover me? 
D        A         E 
Dress my skin in a fresh coat of blood 
                      
Here I am for you to see 
 

 
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Look at me, am I expired meat? 
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Am I an animal that you mistook for human? 
D                   Bm 
Hold me, I am still incomplete 
           G 
There is a part of me 
      F# 
I am afraid of losing 
D                   Bm 
Look at me like you looked at me 
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When I was gonna be 
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Everything you and our family could need 

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