[00:00.00]I've Been Delivered (Album Version) - The Wallflowers
[00:16.56]I could break free from the
[00:18.22]Wood of a coffin
[00:19.65]If I need
[00:20.93]But nothin's hard as
[00:22.48]Gettin' free from places
[00:24.57]I've already been
[00:27.10]
[00:27.95]I've been waste-deep
[00:29.83]In the burnin' meadows
[00:32.80]Of my mind
[00:33.70]
[00:34.37]In the engine
[00:35.76]In cold December
[00:37.37]Shootin' fire from the hose
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[00:40.68]Now turn off your lights
[00:43.35]
[00:44.13]'Cause I'm not comin' home
[00:46.61]
[00:47.61]'Til I'm delivered for the first time
[00:50.91]
[00:54.32]I was first-born to a parade
[00:57.74]That follows in rows
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[01:00.80]Down a narrow cold black river
[01:03.76]Faceless shadows
[01:05.40]Movin' slow
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[01:07.39]I would move swift when
[01:09.91]The sounds of a trumpet would blow
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[01:13.98]I've been the puppet
[01:15.58]I've been the strings
[01:17.00]I know the vacant face it brings
[01:19.48]
[01:20.40]Now the bells of curfew
[01:23.85]They may ring before I'm through
[01:26.10]
[01:27.16]But soon
[01:28.10]I'll be delivered for the first time
[01:30.97]
[01:32.00]You might keep clean
[01:35.89]In the back of an angel motorcade
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[01:40.38]It doesn't matter who walks in
[01:43.05]You know the joke is still the same
[01:45.94]
[01:46.92]You'll just wake up
[01:48.83]Like a disposable lover
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[01:51.93]Decomposed
[01:53.50]I've been gone
[01:54.34]
[01:55.15]I've been remembered
[01:56.13]
[01:56.74]I've been alive
[01:57.91]I've been a ghost
[01:59.58]So now if downtown explodes
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[02:03.28]I'll still be on this road
[02:05.70]
[02:06.72]'Til I'm delivered for the first time
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[02:13.46]I have drawn blood
[02:15.41]From the neckline
[02:17.02]When vampires were in fashion
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[02:19.92]You know I'd even learn
[02:21.98]To cut my throat
[02:23.45]If I thought I could fit in
[02:25.69]
[02:26.56]'Cause I I once heard
[02:28.49]That you gotta learn
[02:29.99]How to blend in to this mess
[02:32.67]Where nothin's hard
[02:34.35]Nothin's precious
[02:36.00]And nothin's smooth or flawless
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[02:39.53]Now no more amused
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[02:43.20]Just screaming to be delivered
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[02:48.33]For the first time
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[02:54.55]Now I'm 10 miles in the deep
[02:56.87]And mighty blue sea
[02:59.16]Looking back towards a long white beach
[03:03.06]Burnin' up into yellow flames
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[03:06.12]And I just wave back
[03:08.04]Like a little boy up on a pony
[03:11.01]In a show
[03:11.86]
[03:12.60]'Cause I can't fix
[03:13.97]Something this complex
[03:15.96]
[03:16.52]Any more than I can build a rose
[03:19.50]So just keep on letting go
[03:21.43]
[03:22.36]'Cause I must be close
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[03:25.56]To being delivered for the first time
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[03:33.70]Now I'd rather bleed out
[03:35.50]A long stream from being lonely
[03:37.53]And feel blessed
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[03:39.17]Well than drown laying face down
[03:41.80]
[03:42.66]In a puddle of respect
[03:44.60]
[03:45.71]I was once lost
[03:47.58]In the corridors of the arena
[03:49.67]In blindfolds
[03:52.26]I've been the bull
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[03:53.93]I've been the whip
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[03:55.62]I just pulled down the matador
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[03:58.58]So now turn on your lights
[04:01.30]
[04:01.96]'Cause I'm comin' home
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[04:05.14]I've been delivered for the first time