I go to sleep, before
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the devil wakes
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and I wake up, before
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the angels take
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all my worldly desires
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all my yardsticks of fear
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all my secrets untold
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all my motives unclear
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hangin' down in the fire
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burnin' them higher
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won't take them away from here
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and long after we're gone
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the light will stay on X2
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watched the city ... city of crows
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watched them fly, watched
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'em all flyin' low
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out above the flood plain
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just above the dirt road
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they were hungry as winter,
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hungry as us
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not afraid to be flyin', not
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afraid to be lost
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and long after we're gone
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the light will stay on X2
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and if you bury me, add
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three feet to it
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one for your sorrow, two
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for your sweat
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three for the strange
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things we never forget
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and long after we're gone
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the light will stay on X2
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and long after we're safe
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the lights will not fade X2
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The light will stay on
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The Walkabouts |