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Crying Lightning by Arctic Monkeys

Outside the (1)________ by the (2)______________ factory
You were practicing a magic trick
And my (3)________________ got rude
As you talked and chewed
On the last of (4)________ pick and mix
So, you're mistaken if you're thinking
That I haven't been (5)____________ cold before
As you bit into your strawberry lace
And (6)________ offered me (7)________ attention
In the form of a gobstopper
It's all you had left and it was going to waste

Your pastimes consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I love that little game
You had called "Crying lightning"
And how you liked to aggravate
The ice-cream man on rainy afternoons

The next time that I caught my own reflection
It was on its way to meet you
Thinking of (8)______________ to postpone
You (9)__________ (10)____________ like yourself
From the side but your profile
Could not hide the fact
You knew I was approaching (11)________ throne
With folded arms you occupied
The (12)__________ like a toothache
Stood and (13)____________ (14)________ chest out
Like you'd never lost a war
Although I (15)__________ so not to suffer
The indignity of a reaction
There was no cracks to (16)__________ or (17)________ to claw
And (18)________ pastimes (19)__________________ of the strange
And (20)______________ and deranged
And I (21)________ that little game
You had called "Crying lightning"
And how you liked to aggravate
The (22)________ man on rainy afternoons

Uninviting
But not half as impossible
As everyone assumes you are
"Crying lightning"

Your pastimes (23)__________________ of the strange
Twisted and deranged
And I hate that little (24)________ you had called
Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Crying lightning
Your pastimes, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I (25)________ that little game
You had (26)____________ "Crying"...

Answers:
(1) cafe(2) cracker(3) thoughts(4) your(5) called(6) then(7) your(8) excuses(9) never(10) looked(11) your(12) bench(13) puffed(14) your(15) tried(16) grasp(17) gaps(18) your(19) consisted(20) twisted(21) hate(22) icky(23) consisted(24) game(25) hate(26) called