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The Constantines
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(For Sadie)
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Your mother and father
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walked out of the city
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bound together
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as they were bound to be
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to pull a fortune
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from a river
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and drink the syrup
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from the trees
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kith and kin
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when the ice gets thin
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we'll forage and we'll fend
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as you delivered
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we'll begin
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to deliver them
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Your father on the radio
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Your mother on the hill
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put these words together
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with their bodies
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and their will
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kith and kin
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when the ice gets thin
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we'll forage and we'll fend
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as you delivered
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we'll begin
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to deliver them
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Show your faces, hear the sound
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There's a new king coming 'round
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You came to this world naked
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to be set inside the hands
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that will nurse and decorate you
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and learn you how to stand
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In your mother's leather jacket
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In your father's cotton shirt
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Grow up good into the light
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Grow down deep into the dirt
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kith and kin
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when the ice gets thin
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we'll forage and we'll fend
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as you delivered
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we'll begin
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to deliver them
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Show your faces, hear the sound
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There's a new king coming 'round
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your mother and father
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walked out of the city
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bound together
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as they were bound to be
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to build a bed
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for new beginnings
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of driftwood
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and fallen leaves
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