Wrecking Ball

Album: Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone? (1997)
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  • Tear down the bearing wall
    Put up a picture window
    Something to look through
    At the bastard colors

    Burnt sienna
    Put down the wrecking ball
    Who has a friend who needs one?
    I've got a way to get to work in almost any city

    Doesn't matter where
    Take a needle I won't be there
    Privileges forsaken there
    Liberties I've taken take me nowhere

    Put down the wrecking ball
    Don't let a childhood linger
    They'll take the world apart and break my baby brother's finger
    So he can't shake my hand

    Guard the dead against my legacy
    And lack the wound no more
    Run from nowhere, nowhere follows you
    Burn down the house

    Make sure the family is inside
    Nothing more to tether you
    Also no one there to catch you crying
    Nothing but my famous pillow

    And my father's rocking chair
    (Get a sliver when you sit there)
    Every mess I make I make a run from nowhere
    Nowhere follows you Writer/s: AARON HUFFMAN, EVAN SULT, JEFF LIN, SEAN NELSON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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