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♪

NARRATOR: Apps are meant to improve our lives,

to entertain us,

to teach us,

to aid us.

14-year-old April Millsap had such an app.

- She had that fitness app to count her steps.

NARRATOR: But one July night,

she turns on that app,

goes on a walk,

and never comes home.

No witnesses, no DNA,

no solid leads.

- The chances of solving it are little to none.

[phone ringing]

NARRATOR: But then,

everything changes with one crucial discovery.

WOMAN: Just by using that little fitness app tracker,

she was able to tell the police what happened.

NARRATOR: And it helps paint a picture...

[motorcycle revving]

of true horror.

♪

♪ Eerie music playing ♪

MAN 1: She solved her own murder from beyond the grave.

MAN 2: The fitness app on the phone, it was overwhelming evidence.

♪ I've been haunted by the visions that I've seen with my own eyes ♪

♪ And the only way to find you ♪

♪ Is to open up the lies ♪

MAN 3: She did help catch this killer.

♪ Why you always wanna go and get me so emotional ♪

NARRATOR: 35 miles from Detroit is the quaint, idyllic village of Armada.

But on the evening of July 24, 2014...

♪

A grim discovery sparks the beginning of a small-town murder mystery.

[phone ringing]

♪ uneasy music playing ♪

PHILIP NEUMEYER: My name is Philip Neumeyer.

I was an officer with the Armada Police Department.

I was the first officer on scene.

She was back in here,

um, past the ditch line

over in there.

When we first got here,

we had myself and the two EMS people,

crossed over through the ditch

and then we saw her

laying there.

♪ Ominous music playing ♪

♪ somber music playing ♪

It was ugly.

She was severely beaten about the head and chest.

Her shorts that she was wearing,

along with more undergarments, were pulled down to her ankles,

uh, so she was partially nude.

Believe her eyes were still open.

It was difficult

to get an age.

She was violently beaten.

It was obvious it wasn't an accident.

It was a homicide.

We don't have those kinda things in Armada.

♪ Somber music playing ♪

[sniffling]

Um...

They're one of your citizens.

They're one of the people you're charged to care for.

And, uh, I guess you feel some guilt that you didn't keep 'em safe.

Excuse me. [sniffling]

♪ uneasy music playing ♪

MAN: Bill Cataldo, take one.

WILLIAM CATALDO: I'm William Cataldo.

I'm chief of homicide for the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office.

Armada is a small jurisdiction.

Armada's maybe three or four police officers.

They don't have the resources to handle this type of crime.

But they contacted the Michigan State Police.

REBECCA MACARTHUR: My name is Rebecca MacArthur,

and I was a detective sergeant with the Michigan State Police.

[siren wailing]

I got the call around nine o'clock that night

and was shocked to hear that there was a female body found

in this small town where that doesn't happen.

You could see the imprint of the shoe tread on her face.

You could see a clear herringbone pattern.

She was actually stomped

to death.

♪ Uneasy music playing ♪

To actually stomp on somebody's face

is so disrespectful and so demeaning.

Whoever did this not only had complete rage

but it seemed very personal.

♪ Dramatic music playing ♪

[siren wailing] [indistinct radio chatter]

I was alerted that a mother and young man showed up

on the outskirts of where the scene was.

NARRATOR: In Armada, news travels fast.

14-year-old April Millsap went on a walk with her dog just a few hours earlier

and hasn't come home.

So her mother, Jennifer, and April's boyfriend, Austin,

show up to the crime scene, fearing the worst.

- They told one of the officers that April was missing.

And when they gave a description of what she was wearing,

that's when the officer told 'em

to go down to the station and talk to a detective.

NARRATOR: And soon, a mother's worst fear is realized.

MAN: Jennifer Millsap interview, take one.

NARRATOR: April was a loving daughter,

always helping her mother,

who struggles with a neurological disease that affects her balance and speech.

♪

NARRATOR: The body discovered that night belongs to April Millsap.

She was just about to start her freshman year at Armada High School.

Even as a teenager, she had a close-knit bond with her family.

And from an early age, she became close with her stepdad.

♪ Lay low ♪

♪ Don't need to feel a part of... ♪

NARRATOR: But by middle school, social media had taken a toll on April

and she became concerned about her body image.

MADISON ADAMS: My name is Madison Adams.

I've known April since sixth grade.

Social media and phones had the impact of, like, self-esteem issues,

just comparing yourselves to others.

Every day at school lunches, we would get salads

and that would be the only thing we ate.

She had that fitness app to count her steps.

She took her dog for walks all the time.

MADISON: Austin was a very nice guy,

but he was also very loud and very obnoxious.

I do think that him and April had maybe a few arguments here and there.

I think a lot of the school might've labeled him,

maybe as a little bit of a troublemaker.

NARRATOR: In Armada,

April and her friend group always stood out.

♪ Apprehensive music playing ♪

MADISON: We were kinda the misfits of the area

'cause we didn't really fit in with that country life.

For us being in that small town,

like, every day after school,

we'd be out on the streets, going to parks

or a... a trail.

But never really thought about what could be lurking behind the trees.

♪ Gentle music playing ♪

NARRATOR: On July 24, 2014, around 06:00 p.m.,

April opens the fitness app on her phone

and takes her dog, Penny, for a walk along the Macomb Orchard Trail.

♪ Uneasy music playing ♪

She wants to get her steps in.

But an hour passes

and she's still not home.

♪ Foreboding music playing ♪

NARRATOR: April's mother isn't the only one who knows something's not right.

MADISON: I ended up texting all my friends.

Everybody, basically, responded back to me except April.

♪ Foreboding music playing ♪

NARRATOR: About an hour after April leaves her house,

a married couple spots something unusual on the Macomb Orchard Trail.

It's a border collie,

alone,

dragging its leash behind it.

- The dog, basically, would run into the woods, run back out.

And so, the gentleman actually got off his bike

and went to see where the dog had gone to try and corral it

and then discovered April.

[line ringing]

NARRATOR: April's murder is tragic and mysterious,

but investigators already have a person of interest.

REBECCA: The next morning,

we started interviewing April's boyfriend.

NARRATOR: In any murder investigation,

husbands, boyfriends,

they get looked at first.

It's 'cause 55% of all female murders are committed by an intimate partner,

and it's usually the guy they're with.

And in his interview,

Austin says something that detectives just can't shake.

- We found he had erased some messages with April.

♪ Unsettling music playing ♪

REBECCA: He admitted that it had not been a great relationship more recently,

that they had arguments texting back-and-forth on their phones.

REBECCA: That was suspicious

as far as why he would feel the need to erase 'em.

All of a sudden, he was our prime suspect.

♪ Dramatic music playing ♪

[heart beating]

♪ Where we going... ♪

NARRATOR: After 14-year-old April Millsap is found murdered,

investigators begin to question her boyfriend, Austin,

and they're shocked to learn

he's deleted text messages between the two of them from his phone.

But even more shocking

is the text that is still on Austin's phone

from the evening of the murder.

- He showed us the last text message April had sent him

around 06:26 p.m.

♪

NARRATOR: "I think I almost got kidnapped.

Oh, my fucking God."

♪ unsettling music playing ♪

- Austin did not call police, he did not call the mother,

and his story was that he didn't look at the message...

[phone ringing]

until April's mom called him, looking for her.

And so, that was a little odd because he's a teenager,

and teenagers always look at their phones.

- We had to, at length, go over and over again

where he was and what he was doing.

NARRATOR: New Haven, Michigan, is about 10 miles south of Armada.

REBECCA: He was with a friend, he said, that evening.

He had mentioned they went to a McDonald's.

♪ Uneasy music playing ♪

NARRATOR: Investigators have to verify Austin's alibi

that he was in another town with a friend at the time of the murder.

So on the same day, July 25, 2014,

the day after April is found,

police notify the community.

- The Armada Police Department and the Michigan State Police

are currently investigating a homicide on the Macomb Orchard Trail.

The body was discovered approximately 08:20 last night.

The victim has been identified as April Dawn Millsap.

NARRATOR: The entire town of Armada is in disbelief.

♪ Somber music playing ♪

- I still do get, like, crying spells every day [sobbing]

from what happened back then.

Like, that was my friend.

[sobbing]

It still affects me a lot.

♪ Come lay... ♪

♪ Come heal me now ♪

NARRATOR: And just like that,

April's death changes their community forever.

♪

MADISON: As soon as that murder happened, we were very scared.

There weren't kids playing outside.

NARRATOR: Authorities want to heal this community

and find justice fast.

They question April's mother for any leads,

and one detail becomes very important.

- When the police officers spoke to April Millsap's mother,

she indicated that April always has her phone with her.

♪ Tense music playing ♪

REBECCA: If she was meeting somebody on the path that night,

the text messages should be on her phone.

But her phone was not there.

NARRATOR: Local and state police start scouring the region

for April's missing cell phone.

- We expanded the area to the three counties

with a team of 40 people,

and then we called in every detective for the three counties

because we had a lotta ground to cover.

NARRATOR: It's a massive effort.

[indistinct radio chatter]

MAN: Ray Pechman interview, take one.

RAY PECHMAN: My name is Ray Pechman.

I'm a sergeant with the Michigan State Police.

They had an article search dog

that was searching that area

and ultimately found her phone

in some brush off the dirt road.

[radio beeping]

DISPATCHER: [over radio] [indistinct] 1490, roger.

- We actually found it intact, which was a godsend.

NARRATOR: Investigators might've just found

the one thing that could solve the murder of April Millsap.

But no one is ready for the secrets it would reveal.

♪ Uneasy music playing ♪

♪ I've been watching for a while... ♪

NARRATOR: April Millsap's cell phone is discovered

and is immediately sent

to the Michigan State Police Crime Lab for analysis.

Meanwhile, investigators start checking on their prime suspect,

April's boyfriend, Austin.

And they question people that know him firsthand.

MADISON: The police did end up talking to me about Austin.

I knew that they were very much in love,

and I did not think Austin was capable of that.

People in the community did suspect him for it.

When he deleted those text messages, it was probably going through his head,

like, "Oh, no, they're gonna really think that I did it

because we were fighting."

♪

NARRATOR: As they continue to dive into Austin's story

and his history with April,

the police have to also consider another terrifying possibility.

♪

- This could be a stranger murder.

And if that's the case,

the chances of solving it are little to none.

NARRATOR: Through relentless questioning,

detectives begin to uncover people who were on the Macomb Orchard Trail

on the day of April's murder.

REBECCA: One of our detectives came across this young girl

who said, "I saw a white van and he was acting creepy."

♪ uneasy music playing ♪

RAY: She was at her house.

White van was driving slowly through the neighborhood,

and looked like it was two individuals in it,

which, now, seemed very suspicious.

REBECCA: The young girl who saw the van

had the insight to take a picture of it just in case.

NARRATOR: Whether it's intuition or just plain luck,

something tells this eyewitness that van was important.

REBECCA: It wasn't a great picture,

we couldn't see a plate or anything like that,

but it was good enough to get a description that it was like a box,

like a cargo van.

NARRATOR: April texts Austin at 06:28 p.m.

The van is spotted somewhere around 06:30 p.m.

down by the Macomb Orchard Trail.

The timeline fits.

- If you know somebody that has that type of van,

the police are asking, uh, the citizens

to contact the Michigan State Police tip line.

NARRATOR: As investigators make a public plea

for information about the mysterious van,

police continue to look into April's boyfriend, Austin.

JAMES SHARP: My name is James Sharp,

and I'm a detective sergeant with the Armada Police Department.

I followed up on... on the boyfriend.

♪

We were able to time stamp him being at a fast-food place

and that he could not have been at the scene of the murder.

So it cleared him from the list of suspects.

NARRATOR: With Austin cleared,

there's even more pressure to find the suspicious white van

spotted near the Macomb Orchard Trail on the day of April's murder.

♪ Pensive music playing ♪

MADISON: Police are searching for a white van.

They would close down roads entering and exiting the town.

[phone ringing]

RAY: Tips start flowing in,

over 1,000 tips during this investigation.

[overlapping phones ringing]

- We're literally just looking for a needle in a haystack.

NARRATOR: Detectives stop dozens of white vans,

hoping to find the one from the photo.

And then,

they find it.

♪

- Eventually, the owner of that van actually called himself in.

He was watching the news about the van, and he realized that was him.

He was a builder,

and he was showing a co-worker of his

different, uh, homes that he had built in that area.

NARRATOR: The van may have been spotted by the Macomb Orchard Trail,

but there's nothing to tie the driver to the crime.

Investigators are back to square one.

JAMES: Knowing the gravity of the situation you were in,

the pressure was immense.

It's an important case.

We needed all the help we could get.

NARRATOR: And they get it from the community.

♪ Uneasy music playing ♪

REBECCA: Finally, an actual witness came in.

It was a man and his two daughters

who had been walking on the path.

- They had seen this individual...

[motorcycle revving]

with a motorcycle,

talking to April Millsap.

♪ Tense music playing ♪

- His daughters went to school with April, and so they knew her.

RAY: So he looked on the internet

and sent us a picture of the bike he believed he'd seen on the trail.

[motorcycle revving]

NARRATOR: In addition to providing a picture of a blue-and-white motorcycle,

they also describe the man in detail

and a sketch is made.

But...

♪ bleak music playing ♪

In 2014, there are 249,321 motorcycles

registered in the state of Michigan.

But it's something.

It's hope.

♪ Hide your eyes ♪

♪ Keep real quiet ♪

♪ They can hear you ♪

♪ They can hear you... ♪

And there's more.

[phone ringing] Investigators get a call from the crime lab.

- The FBI managed to get into April's phone

and extract the data on that phone.

NARRATOR: On April's phone is an app,

and that app will change the course of the entire investigation.

♪ They cannot conquer you here ♪

♪ ominous music playing ♪

- A fitness app was found running in the background on April's phone

that had been on the day of her murder.

NARRATOR: This particular app,

it not only counts steps,

it tracks pace,

from walking

to jogging

to running for your life.

REBECCA: The fitness app shows

that April left her house around 06:00 p.m. that evening.

WILLIAM: She's walking under two miles an hour,

getting from the house to the trail.

At approximately 06:20, April speeds up.

She's walking at 2.2,

changes direction, comes back at 4.4 miles per hour.

At 06:28, she texts her boyfriend, Austin,

something that foreshadows her death.

She felt that she was almost kidnapped.

♪

- Then it showed a chaotic moment

as the line on the map would zigzag back and forth kinda crazily

just off the path,

we believe, when April was pretty much fighting for her life.

♪ Capture ♪

♪ My shadows can be so haunting... ♪

- You can see the panic

because the phone is moving all over the whole time.

♪ If I run and hide ♪

♪ Find a way save me ♪

♪ Breathing ♪

♪ Take me ♪

♪ Up to Heaven ♪

♪ Save me ♪

♪ From the demons ♪

♪ uneasy music playing ♪

NARRATOR: Then, April's phone takes off.

- The speed of the app goes up to 18 miles an hour.

NARRATOR: Investigators come up with a theory.

The killer fled the scene on the blue-and-white motorcycle

that was spotted on the trail that day.

REBECCA: He must've had the phone on him,

and so, the murderer's escape route was in the data on that phone.

[motorcycle revving]

RAY: It runs towards the end of the trail,

and the line takes a little jog to where that phone was dumped.

NARRATOR: The data from April's fitness app tells a story,

a story about a girl,

a monster,

and a motorcycle.

REBECCA: Only in the movies would this happen

where you get this kinda great evidence.

[motorcycle rumbling]

We just had to figure out who this person was.

♪

♪ Have you come ♪

♪ To catch me... ♪

♪ Have you come ♪

♪ To say goodbye ♪

NARRATOR: One day after the murder of April Millsap,

investigators have collected a few key pieces of evidence.

♪ Tense music playing ♪

Data from a fitness app,

a sketch,

and the description of the motorcycle

that investigators believe sped away from the crime.

- We were now looking for a motorcycle.

NARRATOR: If police find that motorcycle,

there's a good chance they find April's killer.

♪

RAY: On the evening of the 25th, during our canvass of the area,

I was driving about 25 minutes outside of Armada,

when I noticed a motorcycle parked down in a driveway

very similar to the type of bike that's being described by some witnesses.

My mind started wondering,

"Could that possibly be this motorcycle? What would be the odds of that?"

I ran the license plate, found out the name,

James VanCallis Jr.

NARRATOR: 32-year-old James VanCallis Jr. Grew up in Armada.

- James VanCallis, on paper, he did not match who we were looking for.

He had no documented history of violence,

seemed like a personable guy.

RAY: Later that evening, about 11:00 p.m.,

we went out to James VanCallis' residence.

James VanCallis Jr. came out on the porch,

followed by his father, James Sr.

He did take us around the side of the house

so I was able to take a couple of photos of the motorcycle.

NARRATOR: The bike is a blue-and-white dirt bike,

exactly like the witness statement.

But is there anything else

that would make this 32-year-old man a suspect?

April was stomped to death.

Her killer left a distinct shoe print on her chest.

So does VanCallis Jr. own a pair of shoes that could make those same marks?

- I asked him what kinda shoes he was wearing

and if I could see them.

And he showed me a pretty beat-up old pair of K-Swiss tennis shoes.

I knew when I flipped those shoes over

that that was not the tread pattern we were looking for.

NARRATOR: James VanCallis Jr. Doesn't seem to raise any red flags,

but the other man that comes to the door,

his father, 67-year-old James VanCallis Sr.

- His father had been convicted of a sexual offense with a minor girl.

♪ Uneasy music playing ♪

NARRATOR: And investigators believe April's murder was sexually motivated.

RAY: His demeanor seemed a little strange.

Something's just not right about this guy.

♪ Uneasy music playing ♪

REPORTER: State police and the FBI raiding this home today.

Officers confirming the search is in connection

with the murder investigation of April Millsap.

- When the team made entry on the front door,

smell was bad.

There was garbage and junk just piled up.

It was disgusting.

And then, in the backyard,

we came across an enclosure for a dog,

and much to our surprise,

it was filled with, uh, marijuana plants growing.

NARRATOR: Growing marijuana in Michigan isn't illegal,

but the VanCallis family doesn't have the proper permits.

- The two of them were arrested at that point.

The motorcycle was seized, the helmet was seized.

They would then take it directly back to the lab for processing.

NARRATOR: On August 1st,

VanCallis Jr. and Sr. Are arraigned on drug charges.

That same day,

a little more than a week after April's death,

the town of Armada turns out to say goodbye.

♪ Somber music playing ♪

Jennifer sees her daughter for the first time at her funeral.

♪ I can see there's more than meets the eye... ♪

NARRATOR: It's not your normal funeral.

Law enforcement is still at the height of an active homicide investigation.

NARRATOR: Investigators are looking for any evidence

tying either VanCallis Sr. Or Jr. to April's murder.

♪

And then, a call comes in.

[line ringing]

- When James VanCallis was in jail, his girlfriend called us, crying.

[phone ringing]

NARRATOR: She has a story to tell,

but it isn't about VanCallis Sr.

It's about her boyfriend, James Jr.

♪

MAN: Krystal Stradler, take one.

KRYSTAL STRADLER: My name is Krystal Stradler.

♪ So, I start a storm inside my head... ♪

- I met James... I think it was right outta high school,

like senior year.

I guess you could call it love at first sight.

I mean, he was a nice guy.

But we got into the relationship,

and he totally changed.

He got abusive.

- Yes.

He always threatened to kill my family.

If I would ever leave him, he was gonna kill my family,

so that's why I ended up staying in this relationship,

'cause I didn't want my family dead.

NARRATOR: After his arrest on drug charges,

Krystal tells investigators a story,

something that happened on the night April Millsap was murdered.

[water running]

KRYSTAL: I woke up in the middle of the night

and see James cleaning his shoes,

his, uh, black-and-white ones,

uh, uh, the one with the little dude on it, Air Jordans.

He was using hand sanitizer with a sack.

He told me he got oil on them, that he was cleaning oil off of them.

And then I ended up going back to sleep.

But it just didn't sound right with me.

When the police showed up,

James told us to lie about his shoes

and tell them that he was wearing K-Swiss shoes.

I was freaking out.

NARRATOR: James VanCallis Jr. had told investigators

that he was wearing K-Swiss shoes on the day of April's murder.

But according to Krystal, it was a lie.

And there was something else.

KRYSTAL: The sketch came out in the newspapers and all over.

- Yeah, it did.

I was freaking out, like...

I mean, it was kind of hard to deal with.

You know, I just... I kinda kept to myself.

♪ Uneasy music playing ♪

WILLIAM: Krystal had been groomed from an early age by VanCallis.

She started dating him when he was 27

and she was 17.

She moved into their compound.

And most like pedophiles,

he was able to isolate her in this place.

KRYSTAL: But because he's locked up in jail,

I got over the fear of...

He's not gonna come and do anything to me.

So I came and told the police everything that I knew.

- His Jordans.

His black-and-white ones.

NARRATOR: Nike Air Jordans, not the K-Swiss shoes he'd shown police.

And while the investigators do not find Air Jordans in the VanCallis home,

they do find a clue on social media.

RAY: We were able to find a Facebook photo of James

wearing these pair of shoes.

We were able to identify the shoes as being Air Jordan tennis shoes.

The make was Flight-the-Power.

Once we identified the style,

a pair was ordered online in the size that James VanCallis wears

and those shoes were then given to the lab.

The lab was able to produce

a scan-type photo of that shoe print

and lay that shoe print over April

and line up that tread pattern exactly.

♪ Suspenseful music playing ♪

NARRATOR: Not only was James VanCallis Jr. In possession of the shoes

that matched the tread marks found on April's body,

investigators are able to put him in close proximity to the crime scene.

♪

REBECCA: We did a search of his phone records

and found that he was actually in the village of Armada

at the time of her murder,

which was around 06:30 p.m.

The murderer's escape route was in the data on that fitness app,

and he went back through town,

and he just so happened to go past a video surveillance camera.

So, the fitness app data and the video surveillance

matched up perfectly.

WILLIAM: Once we got James VanCallis' phone,

it had so much information.

The shoes that he wore during the time that he killed April Millsap.

The Google searches that he did,

like, "How to get young girls interested in older guys."

And you have April being 14 years old.

I'm saying to myself, "This guy killed April Millsap."

NARRATOR: On October 8, 2014,

six months after her body was found,

police charge James VanCallis Jr. With the murder of April Millsap.

ERIC SMITH: VanCallis is charged with three counts:

count one - first-degree premeditated murder,

count two - felony murder,

and count three - assault with intent to commit sexual penetration.

- My sister actually ended up growing up with him.

And my mom also drove him on the bus.

She had said she always knew this man would grow up

to break the law in some way,

she just didn't expect it to be this bad.

NARRATOR: On February 8, 2015,

one of the biggest murder cases in Macomb County history

gets its day in court.

MAN: Doug Scott interview, take one.

♪

DOUG SCOTT: My name is Doug Scott,

and I was chosen to be the jury foreman in the James VanCallis murder trial.

There was so much circumstantial evidence,

the shoes that came up missing,

but he had pictures of 'em in his phone.

WILLIAM: What was he telling to everybody in the house?

KRYSTAL: To tell 'em that he was wearing K-Swiss shoes.

DOUG: The tread prints from another pair of the same company, same brand,

matched what was on her.

WILLIAM: Was he wearing K-Swiss shoes that night?

KRYSTAL: No.

DOUG: The biggest thing was the fitness app on the phone.

- Uh, to see that... Very heartbreaking.

To think of what it's like to fight for your life for seven minutes

from somebody who's trying to steal it from you.

That's a lot.

♪ Pick up your feet, child... ♪

- It was overwhelming evidence.

♪ World knows no peace, child... ♪

NARRATOR: It takes the jury six hours to consider the evidence,

but they finally come back with a verdict.

♪ Don't get too close to the fire... ♪

REPORTER: James VanCallis found guilty of first-degree murder.

- Guilty of murdering 14-year-old April Millsap.

NARRATOR: On March 30, 2015,

James VanCallis Jr. is sentenced to life in prison without parole.

♪ Oh, let it rain ♪

♪

MADISON: Just by using that fitness app tracker,

she was able to tell the police, without using any of her own words,

where she was at what time

and literally showed what happened,

not through a video camera,

but through movements that were tracked on the phone.

♪ Ooh, let it rain ♪

♪ somber music playing ♪

NARRATOR: It's quiet now in April's garden,

a place where you can witness

the cycle of life, death, and rebirth with the seasons.

It's a place of remembrance.

♪ And I won't let it bring me down... ♪

NARRATOR: The fitness app on April Millsap's phone

helps track her journey to become her best self.

But when that journey came to an end,

it became the key to track down her killer.

- I like to imagine that she's with me all the time.

It kinda gives her, like, some sort of memory,

like she still exists.

She's gone and I'm never gonna get her back.

But I'm trying to keep April's memory alive.

♪ And I won't let it bring me down ♪

[bell tolling]

♪ I don't know where my head is lately ♪

♪ Have I lost my mind ♪

♪ But I know that I have a secret ♪

♪ And it's only mine ♪

♪ And the only way to find me ♪

♪ Is to open up the lies ♪

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