"The Things I Do" genre: Adult Contemporary
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	Instruments: piano, bass & drums, Hammond organ, various synth sounds. This song was inspired by the American school shootings in recent years.
	CD: Copy, Cut & Paste Credits: Ned Danison
	Story Behind the Song This song was inspired by the American school shootings in recent years. It is a commentary on the psychological state of Americans: the numbing of youth, propensity to violence, and avoidance of personal responsibility. As an American living overseas for eight years, this is my perspective based on the news I get from home. Lyrics The Things I Do Sunset and the world is tired All's quiet in the twilight I'm staring at the ceiling Having fantasies and dreams and memories that seem so real On a yellow mattress in a crack house watching motes of dust in beams of light hide in shadows on the ceiling please don't raise your voice; she can exercise her choice to feel Refrain: I don't know why I do the things I do In a bedroom in the suburbs there's a boy cold and numb lying sleepless with a shotgun Thinking it through again; they won't ignore him when he comes for them Got an idea of the way my life should be based on something I saw on TV about how to be guilt-free while my godforsaken home burns just like Rome while it sleeps (refrain) I've heard people say that we're all just born this way it was in your mother's milk, and that's the way we'll stay and then people say that it's the product of the rage that is born of the despair in the children of this age who are visited and preyed upon by phantom memories of things that never happened lying on my bed in the darkness wandering the maze of my mind I could go left, I could go right it's all up to me I'm absolutely free the chances that I take and the choices that I make are ever-widening ripples that touch everything and change the world (refrain)

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