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Brick by Ben Folds Five

6 am day after christmas
I throw some (1)______________ 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 balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to (2)________ us out

And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the (3)__________ and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They call her (4)________ at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk (5)________ to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's (6)______________ more alone
Than she ever has before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me, "son, it's (7)________ to (8)________ the truth"
She (9)__________ down, and I broke down
Cause I was tired of lying

Driving back to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

She's a brick and I'm (10)________________ slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Answers:
(1) clothes(2) find(3) coast(4) name(5) down(6) feeling(7) time(8) tell(9) broke(10) drowning