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My mom'd give me twenty and say stay out till dawn |
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When her boyfriend was over and they wanted me gone |
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I would walk through the woods to the old graveyard |
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And roll my own tops and think two kind of a thoughts |
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Are we high enough to clear these trees? |
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I don't know |
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That was the summer dave's girlfriend |
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OD'edShe died in the bathroom at a party down the street |
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I went to see him the next night, he had a new tattoo |
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He was watching home movies of her |
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His face was wet, he looked so confused |
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They had a funeral for her |
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The preacher said she was with the |
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LordThere were lots of pictures of her |
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Taped to a poster board |
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Are we high enough to clear these trees? |
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I don't know |
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Are we high enough to clear this place? |
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I don't know |
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Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light |
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High school halls and shopping malls never fit me right |
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But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand |
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When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down |
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I wound up that fall in a hospital |
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On the suicide wing with a lot of people thinkin' one thing |
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They had a sign on the wall that said no touching at all |
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There were screams in the dark, nurses running down the hall |
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On the night that |
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I got there they showered me and searched me hard |
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Then they took me to my little room overlooking a graveyard |
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When I opened my eyes |
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I was strapped to the bed |
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There was a needle in my arm, part of me was gone |
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Then they took us outside in our slippers and gowns |
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To play basketball on the blacktop, the ball just bounced till it stopped |
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Are we high enough to clear these trees? |
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I don't know |
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Are we high enough to clear this place? |
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I don't know |
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Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light |
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High school halls and shopping malls never did me right |
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But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand |
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When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down |
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When the leaves were wet behind the old duplex |
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We used to run at night naked through the trees |
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And you would lean back against me and |
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I would try to stay soft |
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We'd listen to the engines as the planes took off |
