Why Must I Be Sad?
by They Might Be Giants (from the CD "John Henry")

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No more Mister Nice Guy

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I love the dead

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I've been thinking about it

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Now I understand what he said

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Ask me now I

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understand the words that Alice said

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I kick the rocks beneath me

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I squint at the sun

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Sad, sad, sad, sad

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Why must I be sad?

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The rows of dandelions growing all around me

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Why must I be sad?

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No one knows these things but me and him

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so I'm writing everything down in a spiral notebook

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in the hopes that one day other people

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will feel as low as this

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No more Mister Nice Guy

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I love the dead

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I've been thinking about it

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Now I understand what he said

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Why must I be sad?

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Why must I be sad?