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Now the candle's in the window and it's open |
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We watch the flames duke it |
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Out with every gust and we're hoping no, it must just burn to the bottom |
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Of the wick |
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It's the bottom of the 5th and that shit is still burning |
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[CECIL] |
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We're still turning every table when it's needed |
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Not laying there Defeated, no |
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We draw our bows back repeatedly then |
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off with the arrows, |
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And the Gods and the Pharaohs |
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From the bottom of our hearts we're from he bottom of the barrel |
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cause peril knows no bounds |
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and terror won't slow down |
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but there's a whole low down |
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of beauty to be shown now |
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We broke Ground and broke our backs stacking bricks |
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We never broke our promises; |
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You'll never know just half of it |
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We're adamant on building every wall and stair sturdy |
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and when our work is done, then we'll call our shares |
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Worthy In this land of milk and honey, we're too shy to say we're thirsty |
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We just make a little money and we |
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and we buy a little mercy |
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[CHANNY] |
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No more my lord |
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No more my lord |
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Lord I'll never turn back |
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No more my lord |
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[DESSA] |
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If you welcome every trespass then every tramp's a guest |
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Give what they would take from you then every theft's a gift |
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Hold too tightly to what's in your hands or in your chest |
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And the future it won't open |
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Palm reader's can't work fists |
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Broken bones are stronger for the breaking |
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No, the danger's in the bending |
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Those concessions that you never can take back |
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Curl you round a cane you're still in tact, but not quite lame |
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Better to grit your teeth, ready the cast and let it snap |
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We're always first to come in we're running when we hit the ground |
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We never do leave early |
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Stand sentry at the lost and found |
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We just make a little money |
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And we |
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We start that long walk into town where we buy a little mercy |
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[CECIL] |
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So no more talk about the backfires |
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this time we fire back |
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Light a Match and light the past up before it catches up |
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We'll raise a mast and cast off |
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Yeah, we'll break some legs we'll mend em and then we'll take the casts off |
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[CECIL & DESSA] |
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Now, we've had our losses |
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We've had our victories |
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We've sat across from every victim of their misery |
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That pounding in our chests was just a symptom of our sympathy |
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And we lay ourselves to rest with both our winnings and our injuries |
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We're so hungry |
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We're so thirsty |
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I'm gonna hunt until it hurts me (and it hurts me) |
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And it's aching (it's aching) |
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We're so thirsty |
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But, we're gonna make a little money and we'll |
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We'll buy a little mercy |