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Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

Hello
Is there (1)______________ in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you’re feeling down.
Well I can ease (2)________ pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me (3)__________ it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming (4)______________ in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear (5)________ you’re sayin’.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can’t explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ok.
Just a little pinprick.
There’ll be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do (6)______________ it’s working. good.
That’ll keep you going for the show.
Come on it’s time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A (7)______________ ship’s (8)__________ on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
When I was a (9)__________ I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I (10)____________ to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
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