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[00:25.23]When she said
[00:29.88]“Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies”
[00:31.94]I cried she was deaf
[00:38.13]And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes
[00:43.57]Then said, “What else you got left?”
[00:47.48]It was then that I got up to leave
[00:51.54]But she said, “Don’t forget
[00:56.09]Everybody must give something back
[01:00.47]For something they get”
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[01:06.00]I stood there and hummed
[01:11.37]I tapped on her drum and asked her how come
[01:18.75]And she buttoned her boot
[01:24.00]And straightened her suit
[01:24.92]Then she said, “Don’t get cute”
[01:29.55]So I forced my hands in my pockets
[01:33.00]And felt with my thumbs
[01:38.03]And gallantly handed her
[01:42.32]My very last piece of gum
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[01:48.30]She threw me outside
[01:53.67]I stood in the dirt where ev’ryone walked
[01:59.75]And after finding I’d
[02:04.06]Forgotten my shirt
[02:05.86]I went back and knocked
[02:11.12]I waited in the hallway, she went to get it
[02:14.37]And I tried to make sense
[02:20.49]Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair
[02:24.63]That leaned up against . . .
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[02:32.46]Her Jamaican rum
[02:33.50]And when she did come, I asked her for some
[02:41.11]She said, “No, dear”
[02:44.60]I said, “Your words aren’t clear
[02:46.80]You’d better spit out your gum”
[02:52.21]She screamed till her face got so red
[02:55.52]Then she fell on the floor
[03:01.10]And I covered her up and then
[03:03.83]Thought I’d go look through her drawer
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[03:10.56]And when I was through
[03:14.31]I filled up my shoe
[03:16.65]And brought it to you
[03:21.99]And you, you took me in
[03:23.84]You loved me then
[03:28.01]You didn’t waste time
[03:33.60]And I, I never took much
[03:38.23]I never asked for your crutch
[03:40.74]Now don’t ask for mine
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