Humiliation

Humiliation - The National

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I survived the dinner

And the air went thinner

I retired to the briars by the pool

It gets so loud

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If I die this instant

Taken from a distance

They will probably list it down

Among other things around town.

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Got my rings around me

I got baby to pound me

I see stars and go weak

My baby cries and lays me down

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In the skies over black Venice

I see eyes of a white menace

The surprise of the week

Is that I never heard the sound

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And all the L.A. women

Fall asleep while swimming

I got paid to fish her mind

And then one day I lost the job

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And I cried a little

I got fried a little

Then she laid her eyes on mine

And she said, "Babe, you're better off"

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I got my rings around me

I got baby to pound me

I see stars and go weak

My baby cries and lays me down

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In the skies over black Venice

I see eyes of a white menace

The surprise of the week

Is that I never heard the sound

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Tunnel vision lights my way

Leave a little life today

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As a free-fall advances

I'm the moron who dances

Ahhahhhahhhahhhahhahh

I was teething on roses

I was in guns and noses

Ahhahhhahhhahhhahhahh

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Under the withering white sky's a humiliation

Under the withering white sky's a humiliation

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Tunnel vision lights my way

Leave a little life today

Tunnel vision lights my way

Leave a little life today

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She wore blue velvet

Said she can't help it

She wore blue velvet

Said she can't help it

She wore blue velvet

Said she can't help it

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