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Brick by Ben Folds Five

6 am day after christmas
I throw (1)________ clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The (2)__________ is (3)________________ I am numb

Up the (4)____________ to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went (5)________ to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out

And we drive
Now (6)________ I (7)________ found someone
I'm (8)______________ more alone
Than I ever have before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a (9)__________ and I'm drowning slowly

They call her (10)________ at 7:30
I pace (11)____________ the parking lot
Then I (12)________ (13)________ to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're (14)__________ for
Now she's (15)______________ more alone
Than she ever has before
She's a (16)__________ and I'm drowning slowly
Off the (17)__________ and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm (18)________________ slowly

As weeks (19)________ by
It showed (20)________ she was not fine
They (21)________ me, "son, it's time to tell the truth"
She broke down, and I (22)__________ down
Cause I was tired of lying

Driving (23)________ to her apartment
For the (24)____________ we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I (25)________ it

She's a brick and I'm (26)________________ slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Answers:
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