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The Mountain Goats
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there was guy up on the hill,
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with a trumpet to his lips,
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i mean to tell you he knew how to blow that thing.
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there were women dressed in purple,
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banging on their tamborines,
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and hammering on cymbals
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it was not that long ago
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when we gathered in the valley below
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i loved you more than i loved my own life
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i was falling to pieces.
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there was a young man on the altar
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you saw me poised above him
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i saw you watching me.
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there were singers, there were dancers
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there was glittering gold
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spring breaking out gradually.
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it was not that long ago
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but the memory's kinda dying out 'cha know
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like a flower caught in the overgrowth,
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falling, falling to pieces.
the mountain goats - no children
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