Mason Jennings - Pittsburgh lyrics

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My mom'd give me twenty and say stay out till dawn<br />

When her boyfriend was over and they wanted me gone<br />

I would walk through the woods to the old graveyard<br />

And roll my own tops and think two kind of a thoughts<br />

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Are we high enough to clear these trees?<br />

I don't know<br />

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That was the summer dave's girlfriend OD'ed<br />

She died in the bathroom at a party down the street<br />

I went to see him the next night, he had a new tattoo<br />

He was watching home movies of her<br />

His face was wet, he looked so confused<br />

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They had a funeral for her<br />

The preacher said she was with the Lord<br />

There were lots of pictures of her<br />

Taped to a poster board<br />

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Are we high enough to clear these trees?<br />

I don't know<br />

Are we high enough to clear this place?<br />

I don't know<br />

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Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light<br />

High school halls and shopping malls never fit me right<br />

But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand<br />

When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down<br />

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I wound up that fall in a hospital<br />

On the suicide wing with a lot of people thinkin' one thing<br />

They had a sign on the wall that said no touching at all<br />

There were screams in the dark, nurses running down the hall<br />

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On the night that I got there they showered me and searched me hard<br />

Then they took me to my little room overlooking a graveyard<br />

When I opened my eyes I was strapped to the bed<br />

There was a needle in my arm, part of me was gone<br />

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Then they took us outside in our slippers and gowns<br />

To play basketball on the blacktop, the ball just bounced till it stopped<br />

<br />

Are we high enough to clear these trees?<br />

I don't know<br />

Are we high enough to clear this place?<br />

I don't know<br />

<br />

Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light<br />

High school halls and shopping malls never did me right<br />

But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand<br />

When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down<br />

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When the leaves were wet behind the old duplex<br />

We used to run at night naked through the trees<br />

And you would lean back against me and I would try to stay soft<br />

We'd listen to the engines as the planes took off<br /><br />