Shins - Turn On Me Ukulele

Turn On Me
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You can fake it for a while,

Bite your tongue and smile,
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Like every mother does an ugly child.
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But the stars are leaking out,

Like spittle from a cloud,
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Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound.

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You're entertaining any doubt,
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Because you had to know that I was fond of you,
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Fond of Y-O-U,
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Though I knew you masked your disdain.
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I can see that change was just too hard for us,
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Hard for us.

You always had to hold the reigns,
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But where I'm headed, you just don't know the way.

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So affections fade away,

And do adults just learn to play
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The most ridiculous, repulsive games?
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On the faith of ruddy sons,

And the double-barreled guns,

You better hurry,
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Rabbit, run, run, run.
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'Cause meeting you was fun,
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And there's a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell.

We're taking it over,
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Their brittle, thorny stems,

They break before they bend,
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And neither one of us is one of them.

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And the tails will never mend,
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'Cause you had it in for me so long ago.
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Boy, I still don't know,
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I don't know why and I don't care,
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You don't hide me anymore,
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If you'd only seen yourself hating me.
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Hating me,
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When I've been so much more than fair.
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But then you had to lay those feelings bare,
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One thing I know still got you scared,
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You're all that cold iron,
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And never once aired of our dead.

INSTRUMENTAL (C-D-D-D
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You had to know that I was fond of you,
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Fond of Y-O-U.
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So I took your lips at the time,
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AHHHHHHHHHH
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And to change like that is just so hard to do,
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Hard to do.
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Don't let it whip-crack your life,
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And bow out from the fight,
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'Cause oh, how your sisters will write.
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The worst part is over,
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Now, get back on that horse and ride.