Copeland - Only A Fool

you could run and hide
in the street outside
but if you get caught in the rain
just cover what you can
and the rest it washes out like a blood stain

and if you get caught in the fire
just think what made your heart cry out
for a little fire at all.

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turning wheels with time to spend
spinning clocks into the sand
but this town's the most beautiful bit of land that I know
and there's a better chance than this bitter dance. This I know.

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we were stuck in dead end days
with nowhere left to run
I was looking only to her eyes

a world with all it's glory spent on ona 

And all of us so debonair 
if love were to run out of here
would fall straight into disrepair
there's nothing we could do

there are no rules for this love
just keep your head and don't give up
like all the fools who play it smart
lose your head for your heart

such a gentle way she stirs
and such a poison touch of hers
my sentimental speech would slur
with each sequential sip of her

to follow rules when you fall in love
Like all the fools in love I played it smart
keep your head and don't give up

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you'd break yourself to feel it
and you'd fix yourself to feel it again
and you'd lose yourself to know why
you just gotta find yourself to feel it again

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it's turning 

but I can see you now your eyes to the floor

and if you leave me I'll be 

I turned to see you with your head hanging low
I've come so far and walked my feet to the bone 
while you carry the past like a stone
and if you never thought you'd be on your own
you will now

I don't know how it happened that I came

ring cling sing string thing spring sting

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it could be a friend who takes care of the sick

What if it takes a nightmare to realize it's gone
and a self-serving world will be sleepless 'til dawn
what arms will stretch out when they're tired of holding up arms
I'll search for days
and I won't see any love anymore
to think that it's me that can't love like before
I'll search for months
and I won't see any grace anymore
to think God's abandoned and left us 
abandoned and and left us to war

It's become a child with a hate like a brand
seared by his father's hand
it's just like a boy with a greed and a plan
and he doesn't understand
what if it takes a nightmare to realize it's gone
and a suicidal world kills each other by dawn
what arms will stretch out when they're tired of holding up arms

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can you fall? she's an avalanche but shed wants to melt like snow drift

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(for tub grindin)

But if I can't stay the same
But now for the hard part
I may break someone's heart, but at least I made my art
and in time it washes out like a blood stain

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In other lives
If everyday is something new
Then I'm barely content to 

in other days

If I could write a letter to a love that's lorn
I wouldn't send a letter to a girl that's gone
Because I loved like a fool and left 
But I don't 

If there's one thing that I've learned from love
it's to keep your head and don't 

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my friends are here but I'm all alone
I've been gone for 3 years and I swear I haven't changed 
And all my friends are the same, so maybe I'm the phony

And God says I'm not good enough, but he loves me anyway
But I think I'm good enough to love someone else.
So if I'm good enough to love, but not to be loved,
All this charity 

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(for tub grindin)

But if I can't stay the same
But now for the hard part
I may break someone's heart, but at least I made my art
and in time it washes out like a blood stain

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It loved me so
and it felt like forever

It held me down
and it felt like forever

It held me close
and it felt like forever

It scared me so
and it felt like forever

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Even the best gods turn their back on day
on the ones that they just couldn't save
like a breaking bit of glass I fell 
(mixing hope and fear in one big spill?)

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I know one day, I'll be too old to stand up too
and I hope my friends will remember me, the way I will remember you

Just to see her happy one more time... 

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I want to go somewhere
where it would be easy to just go anywhere else

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I'm the kind of fool that only a fool could love
I'm the kind of fool that loves a fool like you

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I want to sing a song
about the war that no one speaks of
about the fear that everyone reeks of

I want to write a song
about the lies we tell our brother
about the way we treat each other

and we'll all just sing along

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She was home
she was the only home I knew
and the only place I felt whole

She was laughter
and hers was the only sound that mattered
and the only one that could make my heart warm

She was freedom
she was a horse with  no fences
a dance without chances to fall

She was wisdom
but only when she's quiet
when her breath told me more than I knew

She was nine
but she's gone for the season
she's gone without reason or rhyme

And I hoped that those were her heels clicking my way

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I could stand on my own
but I'd have to pull myself away from your arms
but strength won't find me willing to give you up just yet
and maybe you were all the strength I ever needed anyway

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I want to go back to the way things were when 
love meant more to us than way to heaven
and kindness yielded nothing
but a smile on someone's face

I want to go back to when God was just a 
mystery in fact, not someone that I can 
quantify and organize 
the way a god should be