[Intro]
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[Verse]
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The fire chief believes, that it started in the leaves
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And spread across the yard and up the arbor
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A cigarette alone left us out of house and home
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Abandoned on the sidewalk where the sirens and the pirates pick our bones
[Chorus]
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I'm not the monster that I once was
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Twenty years ago I was more beautiful than I am today
[Verse]
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Our everyday attire, we lost it in the fire
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Now we're sifting through the cinders and the ashes
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Searching for a sign, the remains of yours and mine
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Suspecting all along we may have saved it if we'd only taken time
[Chorus]
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I'm not the monster that I once was
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Twenty years ago I was more beautiful than I am today
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I'm not the monster that I once was
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Twenty years ago I was more beautiful than I am today
[Verse]
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If the bruises and the scars, reflect the people that we are
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I guess that you could say that we're beyond it
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The fire's flickered out, but the damage and the doubt
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Make me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind the couch
[Chorus]
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I'm not the monster that I once was
G D
Twenty years ago I was more beautiful than I am today
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I'm not the monster that I once was
G D
Twenty years ago I was more beautiful than I am today
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I'm not the monster that I once was
G D
Twenty years ago I was more beautiful than I am today
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I'm not the monster that I once was
G D
Twenty years ago I was more beautiful than I am today