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Birth of Serpents
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The Mountain Goats
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Let the camera pull back 'til the fullness of the frame is clear and plain
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Peer into the screen until you see it all like a vision in a crystal ball
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Let it all fill with smoke
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Is this somebody's idea of a joke
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Let the fixer work until the silver's washed away and take the picture from the tray
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Look hard at what you see and then remember you and me and let the truth spring free
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Like a jack-in-the-box
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Like a hundred-thousand cuckoo clocks
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From the Oregon corners
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To the Iowa corn
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To the rooms with the heat lamps where the snakes get born
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Crawl through the tunnel and follow, follow the light northwest
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See that young man who dwells inside his body like an uninvited guest
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See the tunnel twist
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Clutch your birthright in your fist
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Let the camera do its dirty work down there in the dark
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Sink low, rise high, and bring back some blurry pictures to remember all your darker moments by
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Permanent bruises on our knees
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Never forget what it felt like to live in rooms like these
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From the California coastline
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To the Iowa corn
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To the rooms with the heat lamps where the snakes get born
the mountain goats - no children
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