God gave you red light
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On Evergreen road sign
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When you left Santa Fe
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We were two string beans
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And you were too 19
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To be blowing away
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There were thieves in the square
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Hiding hands and hiding prayers
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And all their mumbling
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Nothing left you alone
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Tangled hills and tiny veery oh's
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Singing something
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Stuck with open curls
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Your mama was scared of the world
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It was born with a bang
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I was stepping on sea shells
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By the old Mission San Miguel
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When a bell tower rang
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And the sky fell apart
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Heard the rain, I heard your heart
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And what was spoken
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Cause nothing bends for a name
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Nothing wants to stay the same
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And nothing's broken
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When your friends and their friends
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Pass the pipe or tie the knot
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Honeymoon music played
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In the drivethru parking lot
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I woke up by your bed
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You were wandering around the yard
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Window wide as a day
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But the sun just hit too hard
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In a home void of doors
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Mama's house slowed a little more
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In the evening
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Naked boys throwing stones
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Beady eyes and desert bones
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They saw you leaving
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God gave you bobwhites
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And the good kind of black night
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When you left Santa Fe
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New Mexico's no breeze
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And you were so 19
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You were blowing away
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New Mexico's No Breeze
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