Dust cloud coming off an old dirt road
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That leads up here to this little graveyard
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Seven lights in a perfect row
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Under each light is a police car
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Just because you say it doesn't make it true
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You can say that I'm guilty man I just don't care
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You can burn my body black
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Just don't make me go back to Jackson Square
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I met you on Decatur Street
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With your little bare feet and your violin
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I was walking by with my guitar in my hand
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You smiled at me and I jumped right in
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Before I knew it you were all I knew
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Every moment together was an answered prayer
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After a while we had some money saved up
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And we rented a room over Jackson Square
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Then one day everything changed
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Your eyes got strange, you didn't seem yourself
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You'd go to tell a story and you'd start out fine
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Halfway through it you'd be somewhere else
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And I started having the strangest dream
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I held a string and looked up in the air
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And you were glowing with the strangest light
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Drifting out of sight over Jackson Square
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Life is something that you can't control
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When you try to hold onto it, it makes you let go
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Things are not like they were before
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I can hear her crying through the bathroom door
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She says, she hears spirits all around the room
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And they're telling her things that make her feel scared
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I have no idea what to do
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Before we're in over our heads in Jackson Square
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I woke up with a weight on my chest
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People were screaming on the street below
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I reached for you, I was alone in the bed
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Wind was blowing through an open window
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Suddenly I was very old
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In a little boat, absolutely nowhere
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Staring at the side of the universe
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And your tiny body down on Jackson Square
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Now don't tell me that there ain't no end
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There damn well is and it waits in the wings
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I see you kneeling there at center stage
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In your tiny cage made of angel wings
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While I'm here every night
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Loading my gun and trying not to go there
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Anyone who says that life is clear
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Has never seen a mirror or been to Jackson Square
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Jackson Square
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| Mason Jennings |
