Verse 1
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 What I wanted was to fall asleep 
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 Close my eyes and disappear 
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 Like a petal on a stream, a feather on the air 
 
Verse 2
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 Lily white and poppy red 
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I trembled when he laid me out 
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 You won't feel a thing, he said, when you go down 
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Nothing gonna wake you now 
 
Instrumental
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Verse 3
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 Dreams are sweet, until they're not 
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 Men are kind, until they aren't 
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 Flowers bloom, until they rot, and fall apart 
 
Verse 4
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 Is anybody listening? 
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 I open my mouth and nothing comes out 
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 Nothing, nothing gonna wake me now 
 
Instrumental
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Verse 5
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Flowers, I remember fields of flowers 
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Soft beneath my heels 
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Walking in the sun, I remember someone 
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Someone by my side, turned his face to mine 
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And then I turned away, into the shade 
 
Instrumental
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B B6 B7 
 
Verse 6
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Yoooooou, the one I left behind 
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If you ever walk this way 
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 Come and find me lying in the bed I made