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Well there’s a place in town
Where the wild things roam
Where they salt their wounds and break their hearts
On the pain they call home
Where I watched you painting on
Your perfect seventh street mask
Happy in your apathy
Telling yourself it won’t last
With your broken Casanova at your heels

So here I am now
Less than what I’ll be
But more than what I was
When I laid my heart at your feet
So don’t you run darling
I know you’re scared
But your faith won’t seal your fate
Unless you give your soul up bare
So come on let go of those broken streets

So are you happy, now?
Did your weakness make you strong?
Did your storefront teenage prayers
Save you when the rest was gone?
‘Cause those streets they wear right down
Yeah they ain’t made to last
And the pain we thought was permanent
Is poetry of the past
‘Cause youth has a funny way of digging shallow graves

And I, oh I, oh I can’t do this anymore
So why, oh why do you stay chained to the floor?
And there you go, again choking on fallacies and self made sin
But don’t tell me, girl leave it at the door of my car if you’re coming in

You know you’ll haunt me darling
Until the day I go
But escape means owning what I’ve done
So either way I live with ghosts
So I bury it somewhere safe
And leave the wild things behind
‘Cause there’s something more to life
Than just reliving all my crimes
So I’m waiting, baby, will you come with me?

So here I am now
Less than what I’ll be
But more than what I was
When I laid my heart from your feet
So don’t you run darling
I know you’re scared
But your faith won’t seal your fate
Unless you give your soul up bare
So come on let go of those broken
Come let go of those broken
Darling don’t leave your heart on the street