Camera Obscura
The Sweetest Thing
My Maudlin Career
Capo 1st Fret
INTRO
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VERSE
I'm going on a date tonight
To try to fall out of love with you
I know, I know this is a crime
But I don't know what else to do
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My love, you're in a magazine
My love, you're doing fine, you're on TV
You pull my heart out and then you run away
From Chicago to Cleveland you leave me pain
You leave me pain
CHORUS
When you're lucid you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother to hear you sing
When you're lucid you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother
VERSE
On the bus radio,
"Fifty ways to leave your lover alone"
I laughed at the irony
But life is stupid, the irony all lost on me
It got lost on me
(CHORUS)
INSTRUMENTAL
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VERSE
You challenged me to write a love song
Here it is, I think I got it wrong
I focused on the negative
The pain was too much to write and sing
Oh, it was not a nice incentive
CHORUS
When you're lucid you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother to hear you sing (X3)
When you're lucid you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother
But she don't know
Just how far I'd go
Would I walk for a hundred miles
for a glimpse of your northern smile?
OUTRO
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