Despite the walls and barricades
Do you still find you're getting played?
You put them through ever-stranger tests
And still a few can fake their best

It's not just time and not just effort
Hell, we put those into jobs we hate
How can you - how can two be sure
This isn't yet another scar, another sore?

And all these layers of self-protection
Are not how you found love before
Now they are your defense mechanism
They're turning into who you are

How can you - how can two - take risks
When every time before left you heart-sick?

Despite the walls and barricades
Do you still find you're getting played?

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