The Man with the Axe Lorde

[00:00.33] If I had to break it down
[00:04.94] I'd say it's the way you love to dance
[00:12.46] Moving the furniture when my back is turned
[00:21.29] The flick of the lights, and the world falls away
[00:26.78] And your office job and your silver hair
[00:32.91] But our shapes in the dark are
[00:36.79] The reason I've stayed for all these years
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[00:55.16] I thought I was a genius, but now I'm 22
[01:04.54] And it's starting to feel like all I know how to do is
[01:12.29] Put on a suit, and take it away
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[01:22.09] With my fistful of tunes that it's painful to play
[01:29.03] Fingernail worlds like favorite seashells
[01:35.50] They fill up my nights, and then they float away
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[01:50.16] I've got hundreds of gowns, I've got paintings in frames
[01:56.49] And a throat that fills with panic every festival day
[02:03.37] Dutifully falling apart for the Princess of Norway
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[02:17.00] But you with your doll's lashes, your infinite T-shirts
[02:31.15] I should've known when your favorite record was the same as my father's
[02:39.20] You'd take me down
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[02:45.91] I guess I'll always be this way
[02:50.99] Swallowed up by the words and halfway to space
[02:58.41] But there, by the fire, you offered your hand
[03:06.52] And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan
[03:14.00] You felled me clean as a pine
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[03:25.63] The man with the axe
[03:31.45] And the light in his eyes
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[03:51.00] We've been through so many hard times
[03:55.42] I'm writing a love song for you, baby
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