Shallow Dive

[Intro ]
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Son you'll have to grow thicker skin 
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Before you turn amphibian 
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Then you'll have to grow some gills 
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If you want to breathe oxygen 
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You're gonna have to live on land 
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And maybe I'm surprised you don't 

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Make out with nervous eyes 
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Maybe you can't decide 
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How to lose your eigth and lust 
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Born in different gears 
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With symbiotic tears 
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And maybe that's the kind you chose 
 

 
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Well I'm used to seeing the sun not rise 
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It gave me pause before shallow dive 
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And though I surface on the rain-soaked rocks 
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I'm a genius when the blood won't stop 
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And now because of crushing guilt 
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And now because im lying still 
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You don't beleive in social resurgance 
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Or giving in to giving in 
 

 
     Bm 
This girl I knew from fire 
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She got in some piano wire 
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Hung herself from a ripe tree branch 
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The stick had bent right down 
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But her feet never touched the ground 
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Until her legs were laid to rest 

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Hey orphan suicide, maybe you can tell me why 
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Living is the accident 
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And no single event 
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Is impossible to prevent 
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When the odds are not your kin 
 

Interlude 
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    Bm 
And he blew Heather off 
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And asked her for her thoughts 
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Comparing us to lichen growth 
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It's taken 20 years and we're covered ear to ear 
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And beginning on the head to toe 

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And philodendron bloom 
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Your pictures in my room 
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Balanced on an old pine shelf 
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And someday I will need 
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Every flower seed 
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To complete my collective growth 
 

 
         Bm                         D 
Well I'm used to seeing the sun not rise 
   G             D              A 
It gave me pause before shallow dive 
             Bm                         D 
And though I surface on the rain-soaked rocks 
      G               D           A 
I'm a genius when the blood won't stop 
    Bm                      D 
And now because of crushing guilt 
    G              D     A 
And now because im lying still 
                     Bm       D 
You don't beleive in social resurgance 
   G            D      A 
Or giving in to giving in