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My best don’t stand a chance
To start up a great romance
As we ride the rails through the heart of France
So learn about Ohio life
Everybody I knew was white
And I heard things that I believed til I learned they were lies

Well child think and child see
Plays piano and watches tv
Drinks beer but who really cares? There’s more that worries me
Got a gun so I got a shot
To right wrongs, yeah I got a lot
If things were ever up to me I’d mandate getting lost

You shouldn’t show what you’ve got going on in your mind
She might not like it, I think she’s scared of what she’ll find
In your mind, in your mind

I’ll never run out of dreams
As long as you’ve got me
I thought I told you never stop to think
I close my eyes and weep
As the music takes over me
And you finally find yourself among the lines you write and sing
Oh baby I put myself on the line
And swore that things were fine
But everybody knows that no one can be happy all the time
I should have been ready for this to hurt
God knows I expect the worst
You should’ve been a writer you paint pictures with your words

You shouldn’t show what you’ve got going on in your mind
She might not like it, I think she’s scared of what she’ll find
Is that enough to keep you staring in my eyes?
I just regret that I’m the only one who can’t hide
From my mind, from my mind, from my mind, from my mind

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from Not If But When, released October 22, 2007

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