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Verse 1
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(Each year many die crossing
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the deserts,
Mountains and rivers
of our southern border
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In search of a better life.
Here I follow the
Journey backwards, from the body at the
River bottom,
to the man walking across
The desert towards the banks
of the Rio Grande.)
Verse 2
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For two days the river
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keeps you down
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Then you rise to the light
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without a sound
Past the playgrounds and
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empty switching yards
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The turtles eat the skin from your eyes,
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so they lay open to the stars
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Verse 3
Your clothes give way to the cur
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rent and river stone
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'Till every trace of who
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you ever were is gone
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And the things of the earth
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That the things of heaven
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Verse 4
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Goodbye, my darling,
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for your love I give God thanks,
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the Matamoros banks
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Verse 5
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Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean beds
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I walk on sandals of twine
My pockets full of dust,
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my mouth filled with cool stone
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The pale moon opens
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I long, my darling, for your kiss,
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A
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for your sweet love I give God thanks
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The touch of your loving fingertips
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the Matamoros
Interlude 1
banks
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Verse 6
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Your sweet memory comes
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on the evenin' wind
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I sleep and dream of holding
The lights of Brownsville,
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A shout rings out and into
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the silty red river I dive
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I long, my darling, for your kiss,
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for your sweet love I give God thanks
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A touch of your loving fingertips
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the
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Matamoros
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A
Meet me on the Matamoros banks
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