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Hollow to the Core

from It Kills Me by Staffords

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What follows is a story it's not half as long as boring
Where the mystery never really gets solved
The names have all been changed and the story rearranged
To protect all guilty parties involved

It's the story of a man that a woman couldn't stand
Who had every opportunity insured
The sound of all his sinning echoed so loudly within him
He was born completely hollow to the core

Hollow to the core
Wait your whole damn life but you'll never be sure
You burnt down all your bridges what'd you have to go and do that for?

Now the woman had ambition she assigned herself a mission
That she'd wait until her man gets straight
She went through all that pain but her mission was in vain
For his transition came much too late
She grew tired of his lying but not for want of trying
All his time she had been fighting the wrong war
The lesson he'd been taught that he'd be lonely with the thought
That he was born completely hollow to the core

Hollow to the core
Wait your whole damn life but you'll never be sure
You burnt down all your bridges what'd you have to go and do that for?

Time flies when you're older
Look over my shoulder
I'll see her running back to me

He grew so sick of hanging round so he wrote his saga down
To remind himself what she had left him for
Not much happened after that so the author went and sat
On his script till he had offers at the door
The adaptation rights were sold but the publisher was told
That he'd heard the tale a thousand times before
Seems that no one really cared about a boring story where
A man was born completely hollow to the core

Hollow to the core
Wait your whole damn life but you'll never be sure
You burnt down all your bridges what'd you have to go and do that for?

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from It Kills Me, released October 26, 2014
Music and lyrics by Mike Barnes.

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