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As you lie before me now, like a shadow
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On a pea green sea
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Never thought that I could find you so hollow
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Laying into me
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This cup of wine, all salt and brines
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Make me sleepy and sorrow shows
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A field of tears that will never yield a single penny
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But I don't know, I've got nothing to hold on to
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Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace
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By the riverside, you'd come in
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And I would fill your diamond chalice
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You were still alive
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But this cup of wine, all salt and brines
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Make me sleepy and sorrow shows
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A field of tears that will never yield a single penny
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But I don't know, I've got nothing to hold on to
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I've got nothing to hold on to
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Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?
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Was the water everywhere?
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Were you fretful to wade into the room?
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I'd been wanting to hear from you, oh no
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Hand it over, hand it over
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You're weary, lay him down
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You did your time, so thank you very much
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Hand it over, hand it over
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So now your hopes are all laid
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But you hand it all away
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Did his eyelids fix on empty chairs
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You had traveled to lay beside?
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A gentle torture to watch it all recede
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And all the while your mother slept beside him, oh no
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Hand it over, hand it over
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You're weary, lay him down
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You did your time, so thank you very much
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Hand it over, hand it over
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So now your hopes are all laid
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But you hand it all away
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Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?
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Was the water everywhere?
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Were you fearful and long to run away
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From the cold clasp of Illinois?
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Oh no, oh no
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Oh, hand it over, hand it over
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You're weary, lay him down
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You did your time, so thank you very much
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Hand it over, hand it over
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So now your hopes are all laid
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But you hand it all away, no
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But you hand it all away
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