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Where in hell can you go |
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Far from the things that you know |
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Far from the sprawl of concrete |
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That keeps crawling its way |
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About one thousand miles a day? |
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Take one last look behind |
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Commit this to memory and mind |
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Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place |
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When you leave, keep your heart off your sleeve |
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Motherland, cradle me, close my eyes |
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Lullaby me to sleep, keep me safe |
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Lie with me, stay beside me |
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Don't go, don't you go |
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O, my five and dime queen |
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Tell me what have you seen? |
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The lust and the avarice |
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The bottomless, the cavernous greed |
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Is that what you see? |
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Motherland, cradle me, close my eyes |
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Lullaby me to sleep, keep me safe |
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Lie with me, stay beside me |
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Don't go |
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It's your happiness I want most of all |
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And for that I'd do anything at all, oh mercy me |
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If you want the best of it or the most of all |
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If there's anything I can do at all |
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Now come on, shot gun bride |
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What makes me envy your life? |
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Faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free |
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What's that like to be? |
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Motherland, cradle me, close my eyes |
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Lullaby me to sleep, keep me safe |
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Lie with me, stay beside me |
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Don't go, don't you go |