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you’ve been this way
since the day that you could walk
you put your ear down to the ground
to hear the insects talk
so unsteady yet so eager to try
you close your fists up in the air
to catch a bird flying by
oh, or an airplane in the sky

and you put yourself in harm’s way
we’ve always known
this could happen some day
you’ve put yourself in harm’s way

a fire inside you
like your father before
what you would find with what we gave you
it’s not so easy any more
convinced yourself that you’ve got
something left to prove
and now you’re out there in the world
trying to fill his shoes
and oh, it’s so easy not to choose

and you’ll put yourself in harm’s way
we’ve always known
this could happen some day
you’ll put yourself in harm’s way

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you’ve been this way
since the day that you could walk
you threw your heart down on the ground
but the world don’t stop
gone away now just as fast as you came
it’s just the way that things are
it’s always been this way
and, oh, take good care of my name

when you put yourself in harm’s way
you’ve always known this could happen some day
you put yourself in harm’s way
you’ve always known this could happen some day
you put yourself in harm’s way
you’ve always known this could happen some day
you put yourself in harm’s way