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Donald And Lydia
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John Prine
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Small town, bright lights, Saturday night,
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Pinballs and pool halls flashing their lights.
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Making change behind the counter in a penny arcade
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Sat the fat girl daughter of Virginia and Ray
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(Spoken:)
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Lydia
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Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat
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Behind her small eyes sunk deep in her fat.
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She read romance magazines up in her room
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And felt just like Sunday on Saturday afternoon.
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Chorus:
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But dreaming just comes natural
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Like the first breath from a baby,
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Like sunshine feeding daisies,
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Like the love hidden deep in your heart.
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Bunk beds, shaved heads, Saturday night,
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A warehouse of strangers with sixty watt lights.
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Staring through the ceiling, just wanting to be
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Lay one of too many, a young pfc:
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(Spoken:)
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Donald
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There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said.
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Strangers had forced him to live in his head.
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He envisioned the details of romantic scenes
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After midnight in the stillness of the barracks latrine.
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Repeat Chorus:
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Hot love, cold love, no love at all.
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A portrait of guilt is hung on the wall.
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Nothing is wrong, nothing is right.
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Donald and Lydia made love that night.
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(Spoken:)
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Love
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The made love in the mountains, they made love in the streams,
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They made love in the valleys, they made love in their dreams.
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But when they were finished there was nothing to say,
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'Cause mostly they made love from ten miles away.
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