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Brick by Ben Folds Five

6 am day (1)__________ christmas
I throw some (2)______________ on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car (3)________ is freezing
The world is sleeping I am numb

Up the stairs to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went (4)________ to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out

And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm (5)________________ slowly

They call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It (6)____________ that she was not fine
They told me, "son, it's (7)________ to tell the truth"
She broke down, and I (8)__________ down
Cause I was tired of lying

Driving back to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm (9)____________ nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Answers:
(1) after(2) clothes(3) seat(4) down(5) drowning(6) showed(7) time(8) broke(9) headed