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INTRO
VERSE 1: I used to draw all the time back when I was in high school Thick yellow pencils with soft lead that smeared real easy Page after page I was lonely but senior year I met a girl and she made me feel better here But a girl was a girl was a girl
CHORUS 1: And she was beautiful Everyone's beautiful I smeared the picture of her and then I walked away
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VERSE 2: I remember in junior high half sick from fear on the hillside Eddie wore braces and talked like he couldn't be beaten Shawn had said Friday out back after school And Eddie was stumbling blood mixed with drool But a fight is a fight is a fight still
CHORUS 2: They were beautiful Everyone's beautiful All of us crawling on hands and knees in need of You
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BRIDGE: I want to lift up my memory of them in the desert and set it on fire Watch it burn watch it burn oh how it changes And hope that the smoke of the sins of my youth Will sail to the base of the throne of a king 'Cause a prayer is a prayer is a prayer and
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CHORUS 3: They were beautiful All of us are beautiful Let them all find their redemption down deep in Your eyes
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