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[Solo] She wraps her smile round her tired face Sick of his heavy rap, this "Black Betty" wants to listen to some Spiderbait And the sunshine on the window But it doesn't make her happy like she should be And he remains her silver lining in this tangled cloud of caps and hoodies What role does she play? The lead female This is no longer his monologue It's the long lost story of this he and she The lyrics to their forgotten song Built first in single notes, then bars, then whole movements He sang it proud from the rooftops She kept it hidden with their ripped ticket stubs in a shoe box Opposites attract Until he noticed she didn't know the words And his flight soon crashed when their wings uncurled [Female] This movement of notes rose and fell off the page in a slow mutiny Their lost symphony transformed into two remote soliloquies And this queen of hearts is now too bent to play Uncrowned, she's pawned off her king to hasty trade But it's better to have held aces and castles And gambled all your stakes, mistakes make jokers of us all A wrong hand played, it all shuffles and falls A silver lining somewhere links it all Loose pieces kept together, take it apart Back to solitaire, hearts [Solo & Female] She wraps a smile around his tired face And he around hers And for a moment, they aren't so tired