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Derek Nelson
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I went up to Gaslight Manor
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with some wine I had held on to
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I looked up, and in a cold drunk stammer
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asked the last time they saw you
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The clouds were swirling wide
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your sister had run inside
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but your eyes were stuck there
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careless like crystals
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blinking like lines in the road.
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it's the strong, not the heavy hearts
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that are rarest in these parts
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now i've just got my wine
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and you've got a start.
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Pages back, I had told McMurrough
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that he'd better buy his way out of this
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and i was back in the old brown burroughs
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thinkin' he was just getting his
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The roads were curling up
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when I found that Big Door shut
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and the voices were there
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they were howling like headwinds
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breaking like waves in the bay.
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and it's virtue, not vengeance
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that's rarest in these lands
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and i've just got my wine
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and you've got your plans.
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I was there skimming my Bible
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when the manhunt shook their town
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and I was there when that Big Door wobbled
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before the Glasgow took it down
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They were writing out their wills
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When the cops crossed up that hill
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and by eleven that night
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they were hanging like portraits
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gone like a good memory.
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and it's the clear, not the sorry eyes
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that are rarest since that night
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and i've just got my wine
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but now you've got a fight.
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I took my turn, started drivin' like the rain
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when Tulsa gave the wheel a nudge
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and I'd return as The Wind-Weary Traveller
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who walked the world but never looked up
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I could tell that you weren't there
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in the streets or the market square
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It's so easy to find you
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you sing like a reason
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you stare like the Chalk Emerald.
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It's the gold, not the gilded songs
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That are best sung once you're gone.
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And I've just got my wine
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and I'll just sing along.
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I grabbed my things and dissolved out West
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She knew me as a blond-haired child
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My head was lagged; the sun was a test
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and the coast was an ancient smile.
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My eyes were lost at sea for days
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I found a woman to make me stay
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She was darker than you
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she would walk like a dance step
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and float like the smoke on a fire.
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But who I've loved and what I've done
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It's all the same to me but one --
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'cause I've just got my wine
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and now you've got the sun.
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I laid down on a day like tomorrow
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the wine seeps out like a soul.
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I let go of the you I borrowed
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when the world was vulnerable.
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There were bullet trains and fields
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Cathedrals and Ferris wheels
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And there I laid
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just counting my blessings
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filling where you had belonged.
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But all our boys will fall
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when wars and women call
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and you can take my wine
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"หcause you've got it all.
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