[m/l van Dyk]
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Peter and Mary, drive cross-country
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Entering Desperation, Nevada
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Red lights flash and their destines changed
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As the patrol car pulls behind them
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Collie Etrangian, arm of the law
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Stops them and searches the back of their car
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There in the trunk, some drugs in a bag
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And they find themselves arrested
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Pulled them over, to the side of the road
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With a body that's bloated and bursting; too old
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"We'll get this sorted out in Desperation
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Tak!
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Hated is burning, under his skin
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And an evil power that eats from within
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He bleeds from his eyes as he drives them by
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The biggest mine in North America
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Technology working anew in the depths
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The soul of the mine now disturbed from its rest
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Answers will be found in Desperation
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There's a little dead girl, lying on the steps of the jail
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And Collie guns down Peter as he stares into her eyes
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The Carver family hears the shot from the cell
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And wonders why their daughter had to die
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Ralph and Ellie Carter, and their son, David, too
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Staring from within the cell like animals in a zoo
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Something brought them here to Desperation
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With them is Tom, the only one from the town
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His alcoholic's spirit is beaten and worn down
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And Mary joins this group in Desperation.
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Desperation, Part I
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Redemption |