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I got high with an art teacher of mine 
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I learned how to paint portraits and landscapes with perspective 
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but I've been sitting here 
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the better part of eighteen years 
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blank stare blank canvas 
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I'm in need of a new view 
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of some new scenery to render  

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there's a boat leaving 
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where it goes, well I don't know 


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I've been buried alive 
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my history teacher by my side 
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lest I forget those mistakes that better men have made 
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the battles fought and lost 
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small victories at what cost? 
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the curriculum is dated, my inspiration fading 
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a slow setting sun 

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there's a boat leaving 
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where it goes, well I don't know 
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but if it floats i'm getting on 
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with or without you  

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the winds are strong enough 
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our native tongues will fail us 
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oh the pleasure I would take  
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in renaming everything 

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there are boats leaving 
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where they go, well I don't know 
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but it's a chance to see something new 
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will you come with me?