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Brick by Ben Folds Five

6 am day after christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping I am numb

Up the stairs to her apartment
She is (1)____________ up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not (2)________ to (3)________ us out

And we drive
Now that I (4)________ found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before
She's a brick and I'm (5)________________ slowly
Off the (6)__________ and I'm (7)____________ nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They call her (8)________ at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And (9)________ some (10)__________ that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's (11)______________ (12)________ alone
Than she (13)________ has before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the (14)__________ and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm (15)________________ slowly

As weeks went by
It (16)____________ that she was not fine
They told me, "son, it's (17)________ to (18)________ the truth"
She broke down, and I (19)__________ down
Cause I was (20)__________ of lying

Driving (21)________ to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

She's a (22)__________ and I'm drowning slowly
Off the (23)__________ and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Answers:
(1) balled(2) home(3) find(4) have(5) drowning(6) coast(7) headed(8) name(9) sell(10) gifts(11) feeling(12) more(13) ever(14) coast(15) drowning(16) showed(17) time(18) tell(19) broke(20) tired(21) back(22) brick(23) coast