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He stared at the skyline with a look of avarice |
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he smelled the diesel of a passing train |
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he fell with both hands still in his pockets |
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killed by the boom and washed away |
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Oh no what a tragedy |
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say what you want about him |
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I say goddamn |
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He wasn't no drug dealer momma |
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he was a dancer |
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with the dull eyes of a steer and a lions mane |
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bear me no public opinion it never answers |
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whatever intuition cannot explain. |
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Oh no what a tragedy |
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say what you want about him |
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I'll say goddamn |
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No recognition by the state nor senate |
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no epitaph to sing aloud his sweet name |
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no fourteen stations and the nineteenth sonnet |
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he weren't no wealthy man but he was a man all the same |
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Oh no what a tragedy |
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say what you want about him |
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Oh no what a fucking tragedy |
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say what you want about him |
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I say goddamn |
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It weren't the rain that killed him |
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and it weren't his muddy ears |
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it weren't the rain that killed him |
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he was killed by the boom |
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he was killed by the boom |