[00:00.00]Slight Figure Of Speech - The Avett Brothers
[00:09.07]They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win
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[00:12.32]It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting
[00:14.07]
[00:15.12]They say that this is where the fun begins
[00:18.19]I guess it's time that I was quitting
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[00:22.94]A slight figure of speech
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[00:26.82]I cut my chest wide open
[00:28.57]
[00:29.68]They come and watch us bleed
[00:31.88]
[00:32.57]Is it art like I was hoping now
[00:38.25]They said "I hope that you will never change"
[00:41.19]I went and cut my hair
[00:43.88]They say "Don't take your business to the big time"
[00:46.75]I bought us tickets there
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[00:52.51]A slight figure of speech
[00:54.45]
[00:55.39]I cut my chest wide open
[00:57.39]
[00:58.27]They come and watch us bleed
[00:59.95]
[01:01.14]Is it art like I was hoping now
[01:07.77]
[01:08.58]What did you expect
[01:09.39]And what did you forget
[01:10.20]That to live you let go of me with each step
[01:11.83]It becomes a progression
[01:12.55]I won't let regret manifest
[01:13.36]To aggression
[01:14.63]Are you to assess what I've been
[01:15.69]What I am Or become
[01:16.42]Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb
[01:17.55]It can be to
[01:18.17]Attack those around 'cause you're
[01:18.86]True to color a town a time or a place
[01:20.86]It's not you it's not mine
[01:21.80]And besides it is gone
[01:22.55]And you never will find it again
[01:23.61]But I don't want to fight
[01:24.49]I just ask let me be
[01:25.43]I won't give the chance to be my enemy
[01:27.05]So go home
[01:27.57]Think it through
[01:28.80]A jet plane and a big idea
[01:31.61]I jump over the sea
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[01:34.67]What ifs hot on my trail
[01:37.30]But that can't catch me no
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[01:43.05]A slight figure of speech
[01:44.69]
[01:45.94]I cut my chest wide open
[01:47.82]
[01:48.93]They come and watch us bleed
[01:50.43]
[01:51.68]Is it art like I was hoping now