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You wake up in the morning and you hate yourself
Like a disgraced king with his hollow wealth
Watch the smoke rise from peasant fires
But you’ll be safe in Versailles for a while

Rumors of plagues and rumors of war
Rumors of heaven and rumors of souls
As your car sets sail off the edge of the cliff
You think “There must’ve been a reason for this”

And it makes you shake with an unborn faith
Like a cry in the wild, like a tunneled escape
You quit your job on your cigarette break and you fly
You don’t need to know the meaning of life
Just the open road and a fire by your side
You lay your pack out under heaven and call it satisfied

You put a prayer to the wind and a friend you found
You didn’t know what you had till they put him in the ground
You swear sometimes you think you see his face
Flashing past across the interstate

Do you feel love when you’re by yourself?
Or do you always need to give it to somebody else?
Another lover to walk out your door
And leave you like you were before

And it makes you shake with an unborn faith
Like a cry in the wild, like a tunneled escape
You quit your job on your cigarette break and you fly
You don’t need to know the meaning of life
Just the open road and a fire by your side
You lay your pack out under heaven and think you must have died
You lay your pack out under heaven and call it satisfied

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from Born For These Times (unmastered), released April 19, 2018

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