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 You would have kept those words on your tongue

 If you had known what they had done

 While your fists stay right, right by your side

 Your words they bruise me deep inside

 I’d rather have sticks and stones and broken bones

 Than the words you say to me

Cause I know that bruises heal and cuts will seal

 But your words beat the life from me

 Sometimes your words are thick as lead

 You swing them strong upside my head

 What hasn’t killed has made me strong

 So I’ll take my scars and move along

Goodbye is the best way that I know

 To forgive and still be letting go (I'd rather have...)

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