Lamentation in C

from Defend Your Illusion by Jackson Cavalier & The Big Dead Waltz

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Ain't it hard when you're alone and living in the city
Ain't it hard when you're alone and feel so unpretty
Ain't it hard when you're trying so stubborn to go back to bed
Ain't it hard with these thoughts stuck in your head

And you feel so alone when you're trying to go back to sleep
You feel so alone lying next to her with no love to keep
You feel so alone now that your lover has finally pushed off
You'd feel so alone when she'd laugh and when she'd scoff

Well between you and me we both got a lot to learn
and between you and I, I'm just trying to get back what I've burned

well your anxiety sits on a broken shelf that you built for her in the winter
with your nihilistic crosses straight nails to deliver
and you feel it in your knees as ya, as you try to please her
well ya bite your lip and it'll suffice, left with nothin as ya quiver

Well between you and me we both got a lot to learn
and between you and I, I'm just trying to get back what I've earned

Well Grace she sits like a dutchess, pretty, while casting her spell
and her mother is sweet and her father does quite well
and me I'm just sitting here alone waiting to hear those wedding bells
but they've been dubiously and deviously swapped out with a funeral knell

Well between you and me we both got a lot to learn
and between you and I, I'm just giving ya back what ya spurned

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from Defend Your Illusion, released February 4, 2022

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