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What Have I Done? Lyrics by Cursive

Mama, I’m Swollen

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A year now and nothing much has changed
Holed up in a motel in El Paso
This was meant to be my great escape
But, I got lost along the way
Amongst free HBO and take-out
Going to write my Moby Dick
More like scratching lyrics on paper plates
I spent the best years of my life
Waiting on the best years of my life
So what's there to write about?
What have I done?
What have I done?
So is this my destiny?
From starlight into eternity
The gods must be laughing down at me
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha
A traveling salesmen at twenty years old
Stranded in Ann Arbor with a flat tire
And I watch the sun sadly set
Any younger, I may have wept
Much older, I wouldn't have noticed
But I was out there in the world
Yeah, then the world, it passed me by
I was telling everyone back home
That I was taking it by storm
Instead, I watched it from the roadside
What have I done?
What have I done?
So are these the best tales I can spin?
A boy waiting to begin
A man of no memoirs
What have I done?
What have I done?
You're young and you're going to be someone
Then you're old and you're ashamed of what you've become
Well, take a look around you
You're preaching to the choir
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha
Tell me darlin'
What have I done?
Oh, no, no, no, no
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
Tell me darlin'
What have I done?
Oh, no, no, baby now
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
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About “What Have I Done?” by Cursive

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"What Have I Done?" appears on "Mama, I’m Swollen".

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