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I went and woke up sick today
 Choking on words I cannot say
 Afraid I'll never be OK
 Collaborate and listen
 The thing you've bought that you've adored
 The diamond flawed you can't afford
 A parody, a cheap reward
 So modulate and glisten
 The tide comes in
 Swallowing the moon-lit shores
 That we played on years ago
 It seems
 The tide goes out
 The past is washed away
 And here we stand now
 Born clean
 Now overdrawn but underspent
 And wonder how you'll make the rent
 So just ignore the accident
 Because my make-up's stunning
 It's so easy to acquire
 The moment wet, the passion fire
 But later stripped down to the wire
 Fickle, sick and running
 The tide comes in
 Swallowing the moon-lit shores
 That we played on years ago
 It seems
 The tide goes out
 The past is washed away
 And here we stand now
 Born clean
 This immaculate fear
 This tide of regret
 This dream of tomorrow
 I cannot forget
 This pain in my chest
 This gleam in my eye
 This delirious joy
 This particular taste
 The remembrance of years
 All the years that I'd waste
 Now the moment is here
 And I think I could die
 And still I'm drunk and flying blind
 But there's a beacon in my mind
 Take 13, and then rewind
 Then I wake up back in town
 And while my footsteps fall unsure
 My heart's desire is clean and pure
 Though my disease may have no cure
 I ante up and double down
 The tide comes in
 Swallowing the moon-lit shores
 That we played on years ago
 It seems
 The tide goes out
 The past is washed away
 And here we stand now
 Born clean