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Joe Henry
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I waved to you as my boat was leaving
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Hats flew up and everybody cheered,
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But you turned as I guess someone spoke to you,
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And in a sea of arms you disappeared.
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I lived the life of a ragged soldier
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The secretary to a rebel king,
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He kept us drunk and hungry in a jungle
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Tangled in the lilies of his scheme.
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We gambled and we fought with one another
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We had no code to give us unity,
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Most died among us without God or honour
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As blood became our faith and currency.
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And all the while I kept your name beside me
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I wrote it, but refused it on my tongue,
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Believing you a song still there inside me
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I feared your loss if ever it were sung.
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I found myself at last upon a shoreline
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I booked my passage home and stood in tears,
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With a bag of apples and a forged passport
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-The first I'd seen my face in seven years
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Now I wonder at the day when I might find you,
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Appear among the living at your door,
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Will you have a husband and some children?
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Will we share a secret anymore?
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Life is brutal to the weak and sober
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Its powers of persuasion dark and grave,
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It pushes its way up to the railing
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Then turns its face when you start to wave.
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