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Bb 
What I wanted was to fall asleep 
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Close my eyes and disappear 
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Like a petal on a stream, a feather on the air 
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Lily white and poppy red 
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I trembled when he laid me out 
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You won't feel a thing, he said, when you go down 
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Nothing gonna wake you now 

Verse 

 Bb 
Dreams are sweet until they're not 
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Men are kind until they aren't 
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Flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart 
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Is anybody listening? 
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I open my mouth and nothing comes out 
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Nothing 
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Nothing gonna wake me now 

Verse 

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Flowers, I remember fields 
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Of flowers, soft beneath my heels 
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Walking in the sun 
 Eb 
I remember someone 
               Bb 
Someone by my side 
  Eb 
Turned his face to mine 
    Bb 
And then I turned away 
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Into the shade 

Outro 

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You, the one I left behind 
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If you ever walk this way 
  C 
Come and find me lying in the bed I made