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Emmy the Great - Absentee |
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Wandered by for everyone |
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Old pair of shoes the last place they were left |
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Out by the door where they always were kept |
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Brown laces |
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We stand in line to hear the news |
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We've not been together since Christmas last year |
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Room full of children all sad in the ear |
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Small faces |
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And child's music playing, playing |
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Our parents sleep and sleep |
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They don't remember the ones they have left |
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We find the magazines under your bed |
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Strange pictures |
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I play out in the street |
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And trip on the sidewalk all covered in blood |
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Tears not allowed, I pick myself up |
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No stitches |
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Absentee giving liaison |
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Your memory like disease holds on |
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The fellow has grown out again |
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And all, all the fields are yellow |
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We are CD's, car keys, diaries |
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My family kept these secretly |
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Your memory like disease holds on |
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Absentee giving liaison, liaison, giving liaison |
