Ex-girl Collection Tab par The Wrens

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Fourth floor room

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Each girl I've brought back home to bloom

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All fold on close inspection

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Each one leaves a banner hanging from the eaves

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Marking the eve of election

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Ex-girl collection

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Why/ into why not

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Into what else you got?

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It's just how men mark time 

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Ann slams in

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Another lightening round begins

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This could get interesting

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Where's Ann been?

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She pours herself a don't-ask gin

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No ice and light on the bitters


I'm done with quitters

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'Why / Charles, I found out

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Wipe that smile off your mouth

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I think it's tell-me time...'

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Britt hit hard

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She found my box of Beth's best cards

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Hand cut and signed with 'x's

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Called at work

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'Happy anniversary, jerk'

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And I just laughed at the timing with you on hold line 2 still crying 

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'Why / play sex on the cuff?

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Does Beth like it rough?

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And learn your dirty lines?

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And keep her hair cropped

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(The other shoe dropped)

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'Is this how men mark time  / in couples?', she cursed

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(This sounds too rehearsed)

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As Ann, hand on hip, accusing me to the rafters

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The words turn and spit and scorch right through to the plaster

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I'm called 10 kinds of a bastard


Curses came faster

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Why / into why not?

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Into charles gone to pot

 
In hotter water

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Line/  up to lift up a toast

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To the ones I hurt most

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And how the well's gone lime

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With charles on the plow

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I'm roger over and how

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Slower now men mark time

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Fine

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Why, / what else you got?