It's not the pain I'm used to it I'ts feeling like I'm already dead I see from the ceiling a misty spirit Rising from a place in my head And I never even get to go down Down in flames I said friend you have a life to see Why do you scare me so? All the suffering's a mystery to me I can't even pretend to know So you'll never even get to go down Down in flames We had plans to explore the stars Be rejected by stage door guards Mining for gold as the time unreels
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