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Last, Lonely and Wretched
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Joan Baez
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You're tired and you're poor,
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You long to be free,
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But in this Godforsaken land
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You find no home, no family
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On the many roads that you've wandered
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Since the day of your birth.
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You've become one of the last,
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Lonely and wretched.
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Your hair is matted,
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Your face and hands are dirty,
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And the years that you've toiled
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Must number somewhere near thirty.
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The deepening of a sadness
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Broke finally into madness.
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You are truly one of the last,
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Lonely and wretched.
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Your eyes are wild and frightening
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At the same time they are blessed
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And I wonder if God died,
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Turned his back or only just rested.
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And you walked out on the seventh day
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Through the big gates and on your way
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To become one of the last,
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Lonely and wretched.
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For once you were a child.
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Your cheeks were red,
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You were well fed.
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You laughed and played
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Till you got teary,
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Ran to your mother
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When you were weary.
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But somewhere you were forsaken
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Alone I'll not bear the blame
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And somehow all was taken,
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Your mind, your body, your name.
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Forgive us our unkindness,
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Our desertion and our blindness,
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With you, all the last,
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Lonely and wretched.
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Forgive us, all the last,
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Lonely and wretched.
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (With Lyri...
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