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when I saw you in the garden of Gethsemanie |
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drunk when you realized the plan |
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you fell into the arms of Mary Magdalene |
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stain of stigmata on your hands |
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when the sky fell down on Calvary |
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I saw the light shining in your eyes, yeah |
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'cause you and me baby |
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we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah, |
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yeah now, and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah |
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and then we followed behind the sisters to La Hagera |
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saw Ramos kiss like a Judas on the wire |
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when they cut his hair and they laid him out like Jesus |
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I know October sixty-seven John Lennon lied |
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Seargent Pepper could not help us, no |
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when the flowers died, I realized, yeah |
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that you and me baby |
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we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah |
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yeah now, and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah |
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Oh I don't hear it now, yeah |
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and in twenty-one twenty-nine we gonna meet in a cantina in Carletta |
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I'm gonna put Bessie Smith on the jukebox all night long |
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when the Spanish sun comes up on our empty cups |
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I'm gonna take you dancin deep down into the dawn |
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and one bright mornin when we meet Saint peter, yeah |
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I ain't gonna give a damn if he dont let us in |
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'cause you and me baby |
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we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah |
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yeah now, |
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and I know it sounds crazy,but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah |
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Robert Johnson knew your name |
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short for Billy Holiday |
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put the barricades in nineteen sixty eight |
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'cause you knew the man who shot JFK |
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Lenin gonna love it |
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Lord I heard the news |
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just the Basilicas fear the Jews |
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there will be another curse on the passage of guilt |
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Steve Lawrence sang the blues, yeah |
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you and me baby |
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we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah |
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yeah now, |
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and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go |
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I don't hear it now, yeah |