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I meant to ask you how to fix that car |
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I always meant to ask you about the war |
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And what you saw across a bridge too far |
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Did it leave a scar |
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Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel |
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Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal |
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And still you found the ground beneath your wheels |
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How did it feel |
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Bang the drum slowly, play the pipe lowly |
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To dust be returning from dust we begin |
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Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy |
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Above and below me world without end |
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I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost |
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And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed |
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There was still that line that you would never cross |
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At any cost |
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I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed |
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With nothing but your heart up your sleeve |
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And if you ever really were deceived |
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By the likes of me |
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Bang the drum slowly, play the pipe lowly |
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To dust be returning from dust we begin |
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Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy |
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Above and below me world without end |
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Gone now is the day and gone the sun |
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There is peace tonight all over Arlington |
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But the songs of my life will still be sung |
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By the light of the moon you hung |
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I meant to ask you how to plow that field |
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I meant to bring you water from the well |
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And be the one beside you when you fell |
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Could you tell |
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Bang the drum slowly, play the pipe lowly |
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To dust be returning from dust we begin |
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Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy |
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Above and below me world without end |
