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Crying Lightning by Arctic Monkeys

Outside the cafe by the cracker factory
You (1)________ practicing a magic trick
And my (2)________________ got rude
As you talked and chewed
On the last of your pick and mix
So, you're (3)________________ if you're thinking
That I haven't been (4)____________ (5)________ before
As you bit (6)________ your strawberry lace
And then offered me (7)________ attention
In the form of a gobstopper
It's all you had left and it was going to waste

Your pastimes (8)__________________ of the strange
And (9)______________ and deranged
And I love (10)________ little game
You had called "Crying lightning"
And how you (11)__________ to aggravate
The ice-cream man on rainy afternoons

The next time that I caught my own reflection
It was on its way to (12)________ you
Thinking of excuses to postpone
You never looked like yourself
From the side but your profile
Could not hide the fact
You knew I was approaching your throne
With folded arms you occupied
The (13)__________ like a toothache
Stood and puffed your chest out
Like you'd (14)__________ lost a war
Although I tried so not to suffer
The indignity of a reaction
There was no cracks to (15)__________ or (16)________ to claw
And your (17)________________ consisted of the strange
And (18)______________ and deranged
And I (19)________ that little game
You had called "Crying lightning"
And how you (20)__________ to aggravate
The (21)________ man on rainy afternoons

Uninviting
But not half as impossible
As (22)________________ assumes you are
"Crying lightning"

Your pastimes consisted of the strange
Twisted and deranged
And I (23)________ (24)________ (25)____________ game you had called
Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Crying lightning
Your pastimes, consisted of the strange
And (26)______________ and deranged
And I (27)________ that little game
You had called "Crying"...

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