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You've been gone too long |
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Where can you be |
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They said three months |
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You'd come for me |
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I've shouted "where?" |
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Out at the sea |
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Cuz your my love, my family |
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I've waited for the leaves to fall |
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For old John White to save us all |
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I've worn out both my hands and knees |
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I'm a desperate girl and that terrifies me |
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Can you hear me love? |
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My heart's the sea |
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It swirls and breaks |
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Since we can't be |
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I'm gonna build this sail |
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And they'll need me |
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Then we'll have kids, a family |
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I've waited for the leaves to fall |
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For old John White to save us all |
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I've worn out both my hands and knees |
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I'm a desperate man and that terrifies me |
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Baby birds don't sing |
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In this old tree |
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And I've grown deaf |
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Listenin' to the sea |
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So i must go |
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My bones cost me |
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To an earthen home to cradle me |
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I've waited for the leaves to fall |
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For old John White to save us all |
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I've worn out both my hands and knees |
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I'm a desperate girl and that terrifies me |
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I've waited too long |
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Now I do weep |
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For an ancient promise |
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I could not keep |
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But I've heard lovers |
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In death do meet |
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This swirling ocean |
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Is the end of me |
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I've waited for the leaves to fall |
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For old John White to save us all |
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I've worn out both my hands and knees |
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I'm a desperate man and that terrifies me |