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Crying Lightning by Arctic Monkeys

Outside the cafe by the cracker factory
You (1)________ practicing a magic trick
And my thoughts got rude
As you talked and chewed
On the last of (2)________ pick and mix
So, you're mistaken if you're thinking
That I haven't been called cold before
As you bit into your strawberry lace
And (3)________ offered me your attention
In the form of a gobstopper
It's all you had left and it was going to waste

Your pastimes consisted of the strange
And (4)______________ and deranged
And I love that little game
You had called "Crying lightning"
And how you (5)__________ to aggravate
The ice-cream man on (6)__________ afternoons

The next time that I caught my own reflection
It was on its way to meet you
Thinking of (7)______________ to postpone
You never (8)____________ (9)________ yourself
From the (10)________ but your profile
Could not hide the fact
You knew I was approaching your throne
With (11)____________ arms you occupied
The bench like a toothache
Stood and puffed your chest out
Like you'd never lost a war
Although I (12)__________ so not to suffer
The indignity of a reaction
There was no (13)____________ to (14)__________ or gaps to claw
And (15)________ (16)________________ consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that (17)____________ game
You had called "Crying lightning"
And how you (18)__________ to aggravate
The icky man on rainy afternoons

Uninviting
But not (19)________ as impossible
As (20)________________ assumes you are
"Crying lightning"

Your pastimes (21)__________________ of the strange
Twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Crying lightning
Your pastimes, consisted of the strange
And (22)______________ and deranged
And I hate that little game
You had called "Crying"...

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