| When the bitter end arrives
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| Will we be at war or sadly, madly in love?
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| Will we beg for one more night?
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| Or will we have our bags packed
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| Waiting at the door?
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| When the bitter end arrives
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| Will it be a finish line or a starting gate?
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| Brass and pearl, or maggots and dirt --
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| Bittersweet or just desserts?
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| When you didn’t answer your phone
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| I knew there was something wrong;
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| You’d been a wreck all week
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| When it’s unbearable
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| The more unavailable the world can often seem
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| When the bitter end arrives
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| Will we be exhausted or will we toss and turn?
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| Will we claw out our eyes?
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| Or will we simply close them
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| And let sleep seep in?
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| When your bitter end arrived
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| You could’ve at least
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| Chicken-scratched some cliched note:
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| «on the razor’s edge»
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| «at the end of your rope»
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| «the bitter pills you just had to swallow.»
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| When you didn’t answer your phone
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| Suddenly the last time we spoke
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| Became the last time we spoke
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| What would I have said if I knew
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| Just how desperate the situation was?
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| But I know that I knew --
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| Such overstated clues --
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| You stopped eating, kept drinking
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| Stopped showing up for work
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| When you’re alone, did you utter dying words?
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| Why’d the bitter end have to come?
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| Why’d the bitter end have to come for you?
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| So sad, so soon
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| When your bitter end came around
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| Did you wonder how your sentence would sound?
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| An exclamation or a question mark?! |