Broken All Your Toys

from Cautious Optimism by Arsenic!

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lyrics

You may have been set up,
But I'll never forget the promise we made
Before farewell we bade.

If we were untethered,
We'd get together at forty and then
We'd find our love again.

And now I'm coming to you having broken all your toys.
Please let me hear you say,

"Of course I will, I've been waiting so long.
Of course it was you, it was you all along.
And when I said it wouldn't work, well, I was wrong."

The first one was Dale,
Sent to jail with a warrant I penned.
I was worried it'd never end.

Then there was Michael.
Somehow his cycle was thrown off course
In last years tour de force.

And now I'm coming to you having broken all your toys.
Please let me hear you say,

"Of course I will, I've been waiting so long.
Of course it was you, it was you all along.
And when I said it wouldn't work, well, I was wrong."

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from Cautious Optimism, released January 20, 2015
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