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you tell me of a place where everybody knew their
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neighbors all the families helped each other and no one
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ever locked their doors you tell me no one locked their
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doors old man please stay a while I know at first I seemed
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too busy but now i'll make the time stay and tell me one
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more story tell me about the time you ditched school to go
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fishing you thought the branch would hold your neighbor
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pulled you from the river he helped you wash your clothes
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and stitch the hole in your trousers and your mom never
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knew why he giggled when he saw you a place where no
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one locks their doors a place where no one locks their
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doors you tell me that you would show me only now it is too
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late I would like to build community only now it is too late
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things can never be the way they were before you can't go
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back to how things were before once the trust is gone
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once the trust is gone once the trust is gone you'll lock the
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door I can imagine that life but it seems so far from real it's
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just like a story that's the kind of life i've never known old
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man you're leaving now taking with you things i've never
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known I wonder where you're going and if it would be like
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your old home I hope you find the place you're looking for
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