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Cowboy Junkies
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My first recollection is a day in December
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black iron steam engine covered in ice
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like some Precambrian monster
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moaning and snorting
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Nothing was ever going to beat that beast
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in a fair fight
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I've sat and watched the woodpiles
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grow through the summer
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now I'm sitting, smelling summer burn through the fall
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Winter's coming on, days getting dreary
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and I'm thinking this is the season
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that I leave you all
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I've heard a man in crisis
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falls back on what he knows best,
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a murderer to murder
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a thief to theft
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And I don't want you to think
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that this is some kind of deathbed confession
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but run is what I did when put to the test
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My first recollection is a day in December
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747 tracing lines through the sky
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like some old gypsy curse
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silently preying upon the dreams of those
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who jealously watch life pass by
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I've sat and watched my troubles
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pile through the summer
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now I'm sitting, hearing my youngest cry
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down the hall
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Winter's coming on, days getting dreary
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and I'm thinking this is the season
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that I leave you all
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I've heard that the son must bear
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the burdens of the father
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but it's the daughter that is left
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to clean up the mess
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And I don't want you to think
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that I'm asking for absolution,
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but run is what I did when put to the test
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