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[verse] Stand me up where the footlights fall I've held this pose, I can hold it all Here she comes with a silver thread Two more stitches across my head Venus pins me and says this won't hurt Adds a pearl where the bone was first And I feel it land and it does not slide Nothing she sews ever comes untied [chorus] Sew me gold, sew me gold Make me more than the shape I hold Nothing here ever comes undone Add me up till I'm not the one Sew me gold, sew me gold Count it, boys, and don't fall behind Whatever you stick on stays on mine Sew me gold, sew me gold [verse] Surfer rides in on a board of light Draws the same bright line on me every night Cosmo keeps the room so quiet and clean Nobody gets a word in between A gift arrives that I never asked for Stardust won't let in a stranger or friend more And the more they spend, the cheaper I get One more spear, and I'm not done yet [chorus] Sew me gold, sew me gold Make me more than the shape I hold Nothing here ever comes undone Add me up till I'm not the one Sew me gold, sew me gold Count it, boys, and don't fall behind Whatever you stick on stays on mine Sew me gold, sew me gold [inst] [bridge] They tried to unpick me, set me to plain Shadow King counted my power again But the needle was in and the thread held tight And the gold came back with the morning light [chorus] Sew me gold, sew me gold Make me more than the shape I hold Nothing here ever comes undone Add me up till I'm not the one Sew me gold, sew me gold Count it, boys, and don't fall behind Whatever you stick on stays on mine Sew me gold, sew me gold [outro] Sew me gold, sew me gold Nothing you take off makes me small Sew me gold, sew me gold Stick it on, stick it on, stick it on mine

[verse] Nothing gets in and nothing gets through Where Cosmo stands, the tricks don't land The lane goes under and the road is closed The front of the table won't take a dent And every price tag is permanent [chorus] Add it up, add it up, love Add it up, add it up, love Nothing comes in and the price won't fall You get everything, I pay it all [verse] You take one step and you're one step taller Everybody with you gets a little more Every turn you pull a gift from nowhere You get a discount just for playing I get the bill and I get the door [chorus] Add it up, add it up, love Add it up, add it up, love Nothing comes in and the price won't fall You get everything, I pay it all [inst] [bridge] I had a plan and I had it paid I had a card and a clever trade You spent every coin and you came back armed The shutters came down and the lights went dim You put me back where I came in [chorus] Add it up, add it up, love Add it up, add it up, love Nothing comes in and the price won't fall You get everything, I pay it all [outro] Add it up, add it up, love Add it up, and I pay it all

[verse] You counted it down to the last thin dime you paid for the whole house, every time. You covered the tab and you covered the rent and the vampire handed me over, unspent. [chorus] Use me, use me, I'm the last coin you spent! Use me, use me, I'm the point of every cent! You closed every door a new card could get through so use me, use me, there's nothing left to do. [verse] The witch dealt a wild card and asked for none you played it, you placed it, you counted it done. Nick scratched a tally for every small play and Venus paid interest on all you gave away. [chorus] Use me, use me, I'm the last coin you spent! Use me, use me, I'm the point of every cent! You closed every door a new card could get through so use me, use me, there's nothing left to do. [inst] [bridge] You stormed the last shore till the tide turned back you Cosmo'd the room and the mouths went slack. You nailed the price down where it can't crawl you Stardust boarded the door and the wall. The Shadow King lifted the boost off your crown Luke Cage held the line so you'd never go down. Sasquatch walked in cheap, you'd spent every cent the Surfer wrote his name on what you spent. [chorus] Use me, use me, I'm the last coin you spent! Use me, use me, I'm the point of every cent! You closed every door a new card could get through so use me, use me, there's nothing left to do. [outro] Use me, use me, the house lights are on use me, use me, the whole crowd is gone and I'm your last coin, unspent.

[verse] I'm in your hand and I can feel the shape of everything you give it isn't mine, it never was but I will hold it all the same [chorus] Lay it on me, lay it all on me I'll carry it far, I'll carry it well Lay it on me, lay it all on me I'll go out there as somebody else [verse] They write a name across my back a bigger one than I was born you let me go for half of me and I will answer like it's mine [chorus] Lay it on me, lay it all on me I'll carry it far, I'll carry it well Lay it on me, lay it all on me I'll go out there as somebody else [inst] [bridge] And when I'm standing where you left me the ground beneath me won't be mine You forge me slow, you forge me kind there's six of us, and none is me [chorus] Lay it on me, lay it all on me I'll carry it far, I'll carry it well Lay it on me, lay it all on me I'll go out there as somebody else [outro] I'm in your hand and I can feel the shape of everything you give Lay it on me, lay it all on me I'll go out there as somebody else

[verse] I see your hand is full, my side is bare You haven't spent a thing, but it's in the air I got a pencil and I'm running the count On a turn that hasn't come You never put it down, you just hold on You never put it down, you just hold on [chorus] I'll be here when it all comes down I'll be here when it all comes down You saved it up, you saved it up for me And I'll be here when it all comes down [verse] You bought yourself an hour, you paid for time The card you're holding is worth more than mine You pick through your hand three times in the dark And you never cash it in You bought an hour, now it's closing time You bought an hour, now it's closing time [chorus] I'll be here when it all comes down I'll be here when it all comes down You saved it up, you saved it up for me And I'll be here when it all comes down [bridge] Forge it, stick it, surge it, let it climb Maverick the next one, one more time Wingbeat the left hand, magik up a door Chavez the top card, add three more Chord the little ones deaf and dumb And let the Galacti come And let the Galacti come [inst] [chorus] I'll be here when it all comes down I'll be here when it all comes down You saved it up, you saved it up for me And I'll be here when it all comes down [outro] You saved it up, you saved it up for me I'll be here when it all comes down

[verse] I stood beside you at the forge I was no Magik, just the hand I took the weight you couldn't hold and stepped back smaller than I was [chorus] I gave it forward, gave it all I made you stand where I could fall and I am small where I stand I am small where I stand [verse] I stick beside you while you climb I surge behind you when you slow I'm not the Maverick, I'm the hand I only watched you grow and grow [chorus] I gave it forward, gave it all I made you stand where I could fall and I am small where I stand I am small where I stand [bridge] Now there are six of you in line and none of them remember mine you wake up taller every turn with everything I let you earn [inst] [chorus] I gave it forward, gave it all I made you stand where I could fall and I am small where I stand I am small where I stand [outro] I am small where I stand I am small where I stand

[verse] Keep to your side of the board Don't stand close, don't stand high They're throwing cards off the table And Morbius keeps the count That little Miek is getting loud One's going out past Proxima And the rest will come back around I know what's coming down the line [chorus] Stay — stay where you stand Stay — hold what you can They throw it all away, they throw it all Nothing lands till the last card falls [verse] The moon girl counts her hand twice Two of everything she brings The wolverine won't lie down They don't blink, they don't fold Every card they let go of Is going to land on me And the last thing that they're holding Is the thing I'll never see [chorus] Stay — stay where you stand Stay — hold what you can They throw it all away, they throw it all Nothing lands till the last card falls [inst] [bridge] One turn left before the wipe I count the pile, I count it twice I've seen the way this story ends And I'm still sitting at the table [chorus] Stay — stay where you stand Stay — hold what you can They throw it all away, they throw it all Nothing lands till the last card falls [outro] Count it, count it twice Count it, count it twice Nothing lands till the last card falls Stay — stay where you stand

[verse] Back in your hand for the third time tonight You don't even watch when you let me go The shard's in your pocket, the table's a wreck You're praying the pieces land after the throw [chorus] Throw! let the whole hand go Throw! let it hit the floor Everything you let go of comes back with a little more Throw! don't look down I'll be the one at your door [verse] You lean on the table and call it a prayer Collector's been counting the cost of the night Proxima's down where the power is lowest and you don't even know where the rest of it goes [chorus] Throw! let the whole hand go Throw! let it hit the floor Everything you let go of comes back with a little more Throw! don't look down I'll be the one at your door [inst] [bridge] Daken breaks the shard, Marrow splits the score Miek is gaining ground, Wolverine gets more Moon Girl stacks the hand, M.O.D.O.K. throws down Morbius counts it up and turns it around [chorus] Throw! let the whole hand go Throw! let it hit the floor Everything you let go of comes back with a little more Throw! don't look down I'll be the one at your door [outro] Supergiant holds the reveal to the end Blink — and I'm the one you're holding again Throw me, throw me, throw me

[verse] I set the fourth one down face down The fifth one held its breath I turned my hand to nothing And laid it on the table [chorus] Let it land, let it land I never called where it went I just counted what came back With the lights off again Let it land, let it land I wasn't holding the wheel If it's good, if it's bad I just counted what was real [verse] The sixth one made a copy Of a hand I couldn't see Morbius kept the score While the rest came back to me [chorus] Let it land, let it land I never called where it went I just counted what came back With the lights off again Let it land, let it land I wasn't holding the wheel If it's good, if it's bad I just counted what was real [bridge] I didn't pray for better I prayed they'd hit the ground One jumped, one split, one came back changed One left a shard in my hand [inst] [chorus] Let it land, let it land I never called where it went I just counted what came back With the lights off again Let it land, let it land I wasn't holding the wheel If it's good, if it's bad I just counted what was real [outro] Lights off, deck in the box I count what came and what did not No one to tell, no one to call I count the dark, that's all

[verse] I have been a doorway and a wall the same few faces come and take their place they lay their hands down level with the ground and not one of them looks up at my face I keep the ground swept clean for what comes next I keep my name to myself and I wait [chorus] Make me over, make me new I don't care what I become I have held this same small number since the first one laid it down make me over, make me new anything you have is fine [verse] I've heard the talking stop, the door swing shut I've watched a wordless one lie down and leave one moves along the edge and won't sit still one only says whatever the last one said I don't get a say in what they make of me the scarlet hand is coming, let it come [chorus] Make me over, make me new I don't care what I become I have held this same small number since the first one laid it down make me over, make me new anything you have is fine [inst] [bridge] Bast the hand to level, all one size Valkyrie the field and level mine Cerebro the matching, raise them high Chameleon the neighbor, wear his kind Sentinel the row, and send another one Mobius the price, and never let it run Luke Cage the front, and hold them where they stand Mystique the last word, cup it in my hand [chorus] Make me over, make me new I don't care what I become I have held this same small number since the first one laid it down make me over, make me new anything you have is fine [outro] make me over, make me new anything you have will do turn me into anything anything at all

[verse] They laid their hands out on the table and made them all the same. The Sentinels stood in a row and they never called my name. [chorus] We all stand at the same height now the same height, every one. The tallest head gets lifted up and the tallest one is all of us. I was already standing I was already three. [verse] They held the price and held the doorway nothing could take me down. Valkyrie laid her hand out slowly until the whole row was one. [chorus] We all stand at the same height now the same height, every one. The tallest head gets lifted up and the tallest one is all of us. I was already standing I was already three. [inst] [bridge] Mystique has a hundred faces Nightcrawler has the road. Scarlet moves the ground she stands on I never had to go. Nobody asked me for a thing and we took the whole thing home. [chorus] We all stand at the same height now the same height, every one. The tallest head gets lifted up and the tallest one is all of us. I was already standing I was already three. [outro] Count me with the tall ones count me with the line. M'Baku was already three. Nobody had to raise me.

[verse] You laid your hand out flat and straight you set them all the same before you played then brought a valkyrie to the room to make us even where we stand. I had six good shapes an hour ago now I've got one number and your name. [chorus] Same height, same height you brought us all to the same height and then you raised your own. I'm standing where you set me I will not ask you to come down. [verse] You shut the room so nothing answers you made the price a thing that never moves there's always one more of you coming and the copy knows the words by hand. I tried to bring your best one down he stands, and he will not come down. [chorus] Same height, same height you brought us all to the same height and then you raised your own. I'm standing where you set me I will not ask you to come down. [inst] [bridge] You made us all the same height that has to cut both ways. Whatever you have lifted up stands on the ground I'm standing on. And the brain that counts for you is standing on the same ground too. [chorus] Same height, same height you brought us all to the same height and then you raised your own. I'm standing where you set me I will not ask you to come down. [outro] I'll hold the height you gave me. Same height. Same height. I will not ask you to come down.

[verse] There were three of us this morning now there is only me the other two went into nothing and I remember everything [chorus] I am the last of the open ground the only field that heard the end they built one thing enormous, then they were not there to see it stand [verse] The Fallen One took down the light Galactus folded up the sky the other two went out of sight and I am what they left behind [chorus] I am the last of the open ground the only field that heard the end they spent themselves into one shape and I am here to hold what's left [bridge] You Zola'd every friend you made you Panther'd one until it grew you Surged and Surged and never stayed you Fastballed everything you threw you Wingbeat the best thing in your hand you merged the spider into the man you Psylocked every price to none you tarantula'd until you won [inst] [chorus] I am the last of the open ground the only field that heard the end they built one thing enormous, then they were not there to see it stand [outro] Infuse me back and double what I gave no one stands above the ones who stayed the two went out and I am what remains the ground remembers what the sky unmade

[verse] I am lying face-down in the dark underneath a hand I've never seen taking off a price I never set putting weight on what I've never been Every turn the Surge comes round again one more, one more, before I'm drawn [chorus] I will come up cheaper than I'm written I will come up doubled at the door Every hand that changed me in the dark gets a stranger that it waited for I was never asked what I would be I was only ever going to be more [verse] They will pull me under, bring me back with a number bigger than my name They will cut the strongest part away and hand the wound to someone else There are copies of me standing up in the places I have never been [chorus] I will come up cheaper than I'm written I will come up doubled at the door Every hand that changed me in the dark gets a stranger that it waited for I was never asked what I would be I was only ever going to be more [bridge] They will speak my lines in someone's voice and I will hear a stranger wearing me When I finally turn and show my face there will be no other place to be And when I walk out of the dark at last someone else decided all my weight [inst] [chorus] I will come up cheaper than I'm written I will come up doubled at the door Every hand that changed me in the dark gets a stranger that it waited for I was never asked what I would be I was only ever going to be more [outro] I am lying face-down in the dark I will not be the one who arrives

[verse] I am the metal going under now down the black seam between the plates Zola has his hands around my name and the fire is already lit and I am warm enough to go [chorus] I don't die, I'm only divided poured out twice into the mold somewhere two of me are standing the copy walks, and I am not [verse] There's a Black Panther in my place and another one a lane away the tarantula is counting power Galactus takes the world to my left the fallen one claims all the height I'm thinning into something bright [chorus] I don't die, I'm only divided poured out twice into the mold somewhere two of me are standing the copy walks, and I am not [inst] [bridge] The mold is filling up with me I can see my face on both of them they'll do the work I came to do and they'll do better, and I'm through [chorus] I don't die, I'm only divided poured out twice into the mold let them carry what I started the copy walks, and I am not [outro] The fire goes out, the shape stays warm if they ever raise me doubled I'll come back a copy too

[verse] The water's left a line on the wall a ring of salt where the tide line sat you fall in with the falling one the room goes thin, the floor goes clear [chorus] It's coming low across the flat the way it always has you empty out and double back and I can't time the crash [verse] I was adamant, you unmake me slow the panther walks where the price is low you pour your best into one dark shape the door you opened is the door I take [chorus] It's coming low across the flat the way it always has you empty out and double back and I can't time the crash [bridge] You iron the price down you surge it up again one wingbeat and my hand goes soft you psylocke the number low you zola the best thing wide you fastball the rest away you galactus the far block out you symbiote into the seam you tarantula up my wall [inst] [chorus] It's coming low across the flat the way it always has you empty out and double back and I can't time the crash [outro] The water's coming back the water's coming back I still can't time the crash

[verse] I was the tallest thing in the room the one they counted on your hand came down flat on my chest and asked me to be gone the fire took my name but not my size it wears my heat like a coat I heard the number climb without me and something in me said go [chorus] I am the shape the fire kept taller than I ever stood you doubled me and called it yours I am the ash with the better score [verse] Zola's hands are quick and small they learned my shape in an hour a panther doubles in the dark and no one asked me first they threw me at a stranger's chest and his height went out with mine something is wearing my words and calling them its own [chorus] I am the shape the fire kept taller than I ever stood you doubled me and called it yours I am the ash with the better score [bridge] Somebody has to be the weight somebody has to be the wood the Fallen One sets your ceiling to the height of what I was let Galactus have the rooms the last light leaves from where I stood [inst] [chorus] I am the shape the fire kept taller than I ever stood you doubled me and called it yours I am the ash with the better score [outro] Nothing here to double now the tarantula is taller I am the shape the fire kept and I am not standing there

[verse] I was a hollow cast in clay they tipped the others over me warm and slow it came my way and now I'm more than I can be [chorus] Pour it in, pour it in I am the one they emptied for pour it in, pour it in I don't fit my shape any more everything they had is in me now and I am emptier than before [verse] They spent themselves to fill me up a hand, a claw, a borrowed cost I hold the shape of what they were and everything I hold is lost [chorus] Pour it in, pour it in I am the one they emptied for pour it in, pour it in I don't fit my shape any more everything they had is in me now and I am emptier than before [bridge] The Fallen One set my ceiling to his size I grew into the room they cut me into copies overnight and none of them is me [inst] [chorus] Pour it in, pour it in I am the one they emptied for pour it in, pour it in I don't fit my shape any more everything they had is in me now and I am emptier than before [outro] Pour it in, pour it in nothing left to pour pour it in, pour it in I am more, I am more