[Intro]
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[Verse]
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I have lived a hundred lives
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and I have died a dozen times
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but the reaper hasn’t caught me yet
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though his scythe is often at my neck
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and I have learned a trick or two
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though I’ve forgotten quite a few
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and might have told a hundred lies
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twice as many half as true
[Chorus]
D E6 A6
Oh I have been an idiot
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missing some key ingredient
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and waiting as I fail to rise
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never guessing what it meant
[Verse]
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I lived adrift on luck and looks
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‘till hungry hearts struck hard and took
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and made afraid of what I’d done
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my skills were nil, my friends were none
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I could not trust my empty mind
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these stolen holes of space and time
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the faces, newly strange, I’d find
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none of them resembling mine
[Chorus]
D E6 A6
Oh I have been an idiot
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missing some key ingredient
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and waiting as I fail to rise
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never asking what it meant
[Verse]
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I barely cared, and rarely tried
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to find some reason I should fight
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but in my hand and at my side
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you, my heart, my arm did guide
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for I had been your long lost twin
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closer than a second skin
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and now I am alone again
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wiser than I’ve never been
[Chorus]
D E6 A6
Oh I have been an idiot
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missing some key ingredient
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but now I know how I will rise
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oh how on earth could I forget?
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knowing you has made me wise
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now I am not an idiot!