Quiet House - Norma Jeanne

      [Intro]
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[Verse]
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You were the one behind the camera
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All those photographs I found
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The stairs up to the attic
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They would bend and bow with every creaking sound
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The books unbound
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The dusty ground
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The stories that they told me
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They were fragments, they were parchment half unfurled
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They were epitaphs in whispered tones
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Kept safe from all the swine and all the pearls
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The black-haired girl
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The twists and curls

[Bridge]
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I have never seen your grave
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And I will never know the things that you believed
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Norma Jeanne
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Norma Jeanne

[Verse]
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Oh, was he gentle? Was he patient? Was he meek?
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Did the animal inside him
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Have to teach you how to turn the other cheek?
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Norma Jeanne
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Are you any part of me?
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And oh, did it haunt you still
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When you would go to sleep?
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Did you learn to love the darkness
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Of the one who laid these children at your feet?
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Norma Jeanne
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Norma Jeanne

[Bridge]
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Were you broken? Were you bitter?
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Are you present in the secrets that I keep?
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Norma Jeanne
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Norma Jeanne
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You are the face of all my questions
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And the body of the man that I will be
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Norma Jeanne
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Do you see yourself in me?

Do I see myself in you?

[Outro]
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