All I had hoped for
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I kept inside your car
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The rabbit in the barn
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Most of all I wait
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I wait beside the door; I wait beside the door
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All I was wrong trembling in the cage
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I was diamonds in the cage
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In seven hours I consider death
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And your father called to yell at me
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You little boy, you little boy
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Found out you cheated me
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I ran behind the barn and cut my hands somehow
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Blood in the meadowlark
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I punched your ears instead
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I punched you in the head
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You only laughed and laughed and laughed
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How I was wrong tingling from the kill
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Tickle me until you devil bird you evil still
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Slept on my arms, sleeping in the sill
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I was sleeping in the room with you
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You little boy, you little boy
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How could you run from me now?
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The loneliest chime in the house
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The loneliest chime in the house
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You let it out you let it out
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Come to me Calvary still
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I'm weeding and raking until
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I'm bleeding in spite of my love for you
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It bruised and bruised my will
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Counting alluvial plains
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The breathing inside of the range
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You touched me inside of my cage
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Beneath my shirt your hands embraced me
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Come to me feathered and frayed
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For I am the ugliest prey,
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For I am the ugliest prey
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The owl, the reckless reckless praise.
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You said you'd wait for me
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Down by Tannery Creek
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Far out by the clothesline where we used to kiss behind the sheets
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Wrapped in a blanket of red
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The Owl and the Tanager said
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The Owl and the Tanager said
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One waits until the hour is death
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The Owl And The Tanager
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| Sufjan Stevens |
