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Verse 1
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I was born in Montreal,
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A winter's slip that bloomed in fall
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Due my father's lot in life,
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I got his name and I killed his wife
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As if her blood I'd broken through
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Had nev er been enough for two...
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So I was sent out early on
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To cutting black ice on the pond,
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To lying flat and pulling free
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Whatever might rise up to me
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I held my tongue for seven
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years,
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Fluttered my hands, closed my ears—
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As if deaf to every word,
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Refusing every song I heard
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That might connect me to this ground,
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So silence spoke for me instead,
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And hovered like the passing dead
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Whose prayer is but a laugh unfurled
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Above this lost edge of the world
Verse 3
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When I was twelve my father fled
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He left me all he was and had—
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His hammer and a dying fire,
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An empty vein, and one desire:
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To lead my pony from the mines
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And ride him hard beyond the time
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Of broken, long- forgotten souls
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Who become their fathers in these holes
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That spark and fume and
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smoke and seethe
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And claim these hills
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but can't claim me
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I was wild at twenty-
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three,
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My burning mind turned to the sea,
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And a sour engine room
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Of a war ship, hoping war came soon—
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I spent my rage in tiny towns
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Wherever we might run aground;
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And every face that met my eye
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Was calling on some wish to die,
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But if I stood and drank alone
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Then that wish became my own
Interlude 1
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The years ran as if for their
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lives.
I, the shameless beau
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of a governor's wife—
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Standing just outside of view
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Holding hats and coats and shoes...
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Then running guns for a
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lost decade,
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Posing as a doctor's aide—
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I pushed pins in maps to show
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How to stop a plague or make it go;
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And then they took me out in chains
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When a secret shared had
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changed the game
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But, all those days have fled somehow
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And nothing occupies me now—
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Ex cept for this strange thought of you
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Who sat before me back in school,
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And trailed a rope of braided hair
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Across the back rail of your chair
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And learned to sign your name in air,
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And read from lips –oh, I might've dared
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To simply move my own so you
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Could read please love me,
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and might have too
Outro 1
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