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I married |
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Isis on the fifth day of |
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MayBut I could not hold on to her very long |
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So I cut off my hair and |
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I rode straight away |
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For the wild unknown country where |
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I could not go wrong |
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I came to a high place of darkness and light |
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Dividing line ran through the center of town |
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I hitched up my pony to a post on the right |
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Went into a laundry to wash my clothes down |
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A man in the corner approached me for a match |
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I knew right away he was not ordinary |
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He said, "Are you lookin' for somethin' easy to catch?" |
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I said, "I got no money", he said, "That ain't necessary" |
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We set out that night for the cold in the |
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NorthI gave him my blanket and he gave me his word |
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I said, "Where are we goin'?", he said "We'd be back by the fourth" |
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I said, "That's the best news that I've ever heard" |
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I was thinkin' about turquoise, |
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I was thinkin' about gold |
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I was thinkin' about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace |
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As we rode through the canyons, through the devilish cold |
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I was thinkin' about |
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Isis, how she thought |
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I was so reckless |
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How she told me that one day we would meet up again |
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And things would be different the next time we wed |
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If I only could hang on and just be her friend |
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I still can't remember all the best things she said |
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We came to the pyramids, all embedded in ice |
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He said, "There's a body I'm tryin' to findIf I carry it out it'll bring a good price"' |
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Twas then that |
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I knew what he had on his mind |
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The wind it was howlin' and the snow was outrageous |
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We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn |
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When he died |
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I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious |
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But I made up my mind that |
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I had to go on |
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I broke into the tomb but the casket was empty |
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There was no jewels, no nothin', |
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I felt I'd been had |
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When I saw that my partner was just bein' friendly |
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When I took up his offer |
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I musta been mad |
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I picked up his body and |
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I dragged him inside |
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Threw him down in the hole and |
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I put back the cover |
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I said a quick prayer and |
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I felt satisfied |
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Then I rode back to find |
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Isis just to tell her |
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I love her |
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She was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise |
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Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed |
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I came in from the |
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East with the sun in my eyes |
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I cursed her one time then |
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I rode on ahead |
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She said, "Where ya been?", |
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I said, "No place special" |
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She said, "You look different", |
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I said, "Well, I guess" |
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She said, "You been gone", |
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I said,"That's only natural" |
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She said, "You gonna stay", |
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I said, "If you want me to, yes" |
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Isis, oh, |
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Isis, you mystical child |
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What drives me to you is what drives me insane |
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I still can remember the way that you smiled |
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On the fifth day of |
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May in the drizzlin' rain |