Bob Mould - Taking Everything Lyrics

This fever on my mind, I'm burning down inside
My luck may never change, or so it seems that way
I know in seven years, this curse will disappear
Where has my ladder gone? I feel like I've been robbed

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In taking everything from me now
I'm making over what I hoped to be, I know
This is my only folder left with all these words
You've taken everything from me now

You take my license plates, you've taken everything
The place where I belong, you take all my songs
You've taken what I wanted, the few things that I kept
I turned around to help someone, and then you helped yourself

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So take away the skin, you scratch until you win
And in this lottery, what is the prize for me?
I'd give you anything, but I can't match this happiness
What's right or wrong, where do I belong?

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Where has my ladder gone? you take all my songs
Where do I belong?
In taking everything from me