from Underneath

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Under the castle in the land of snore,

down in the dungeon where the weird are stored

all the different and the outcast sneak back home

after laughing in the bright lights all night long.

I'm lucky to be down with the cast aside

safe from the madness of the world we hide

with everybody free to come and go

under the radar of the status quo



Down here we always got each other

Down here and it's how we know

Down here that we're sister and brother

Down here in the land below

Down here we see you looking in

Down here with your longing stare

Down here we got a feeling of belonging

Down here because we're not up there.



So you want to get close to the wild and strange

you want to stand at the edge of the river of change

you got a hungry soul, but a cautious mind

so you can't quite leave your world behind

So you come for a visit, but you lose your nerve

out at the edges of the bell-shaped curve.

But I saw your soul when you dropped your fear

and came walking in the world of the wild down here.



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I was only 4 maybe she was 5.

We were playing in the car parked in the drive

and it all started off with the one mistake

and that was the lever of the parking brake.

At the bottom of the hill we cranked it hard,

missed all the bushes in the neighbor's yard.

Then picking up speed, running out of time,

we drove right into our lives of crime.



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