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I Tried To Die Young

from Ever Since You Never Heard Of Me by Melanie

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I tried to die young
Really I tried
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb
I laugh at the things I’ve done
When I tried to die young

I took a plane through the dawn
Threw myself on the tracks
But the train didn’t come and I had to walk back
I jumped into the whirlpool thought I get sucked in
I just kept spinning around ‘til I learned how to swim

I tried to die young
Boy, did I tried
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb
And I laugh at the things that I’ve done
When I tried to die young

My heart kept on breaking
And the crack sought the edge
Where the hand of a shadow grabbed the hand in my head
There where demons, I know them
And they still come by
But we’ve become friends, my demons and I

I tried to die young
Really I tried
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb
And I laugh at the things that I’ve done
When I tried to die young

I took a razor to the wrist of reality
Hell bent on my way toward futility
I got a reason to believe that it won’t go on forever
But reason to the heart is a message undelivered

I tried to die young
Really, really I tried
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb
And I laugh at the things I’ve done
When I tried to die young

Now I’m the old girl I never thought I’d become
Does it get any better asks the little girl in my song
I’m still learning the answers so I make up things, you see
She laughs, you’re still the same and you never kill me

I tried to die young
Really I tried
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb
And I laugh at the things I’ve done
When I tried to die young

Oh, I laugh at the things I’ve done
Oh, I laugh at the things I’ve done
I laugh at the things I’ve done
When I tried to die young

I tried to die young…

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from Ever Since You Never Heard Of Me, released October 25, 2010

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Melanie Nashville, Tennessee

Pieces of a career, scattered by the winds of experience and assembled again by the force of love into the most personal and brilliant moments of her musical journey. Melanie is poised to enlighten new generations about what it means to sing with both passion and eloquence, to write at once with intelligence and emotion, and to inspire through song. Nobody does this better.
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