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Tell the hour: go take another, |
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Or go down, Moses, without a fuss |
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Give in to the lawless water |
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And send a later boat for us |
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Sticks and stones, blood, ash, and bone, |
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I shake the tree, swim out alone: |
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Turning over the dark Missouri |
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Now that every new leaf I had is gone |
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The moon's near empty, a swinging saber, |
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Keeping every prayer at bay, |
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At the throat of love for ransom |
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From the dull approaching day; |
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There is no lord that rides this boarder, |
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No fences stretch this far to show |
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How times will side against another, |
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As one arrives and others go |
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(Chorus) |
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Whores are dressed in fire and feathers |
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On the beach, sit in a row |
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Climb the banks through scrub and tender, |
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Disappear where rabbits go. |
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They had nothing that I needed |
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But I gave them all I had, |
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Just to share the dirt between them |
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As they waited, smoked and laughed |
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(Chorus) |