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As you lie before me now like a shadow |
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On a pea green sea |
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Never thought that I could find you so hollow |
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Laying into me |
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But this cup of wine |
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All salt and brine's made me sleepy |
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The sorrow sows |
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A field of tears that will never yield a single penny |
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But I don't know |
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I've got nothing to hold onto |
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Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace |
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By the riverside |
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You'd come in and I would fill your diamond chalice |
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You were still alive |
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But this cup of wine |
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All salt and brine's made me sleepy |
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And sorrow sows |
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A field of tears that will never yield a single penny |
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But I don't know |
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I've got nothing to hold onto |
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I've got nothing to hold onto |
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Were you sleepless tearing at the air? |
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Was the water everywhere? |
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Were you fretful to wade into the room? |
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I'd been wanting to hear from you - Oh no |
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Hand it over (Hand it over) |
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Hand it over (Ooh-ooh) |
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You're weary lay 'em down |
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You did your time so thank you very much |
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Hand it over (Hand it over) |
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Hand it over (Ooh-ooh) |
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So now your hopes are all laid |
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But you hand it all away |
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Did his eyelids affix on empty chairs |
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You had traveled to lay beside? |
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A gentle torture to watch it all recede |
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And all the while your mother slept beside him - Oh no |
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Hand it over (Hand it over) |
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Hand it over (Ooh-ooh) |
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You're weary lay 'em down |
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You did your time so thank you very much |
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Hand it over (Hand it over) |
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Hand it over (Ooh-ooh) |
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So now your hopes are all laid |
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But you hand it all away |
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Were you sleepless tearing at the air? |
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Was the water everywhere? |
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Were you fearful and longed to run away |
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From the cold clasp of Illinois? - Oh no |
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Hand it over (Hand it over) |
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Hand it over (Ooh-ooh) |
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You're weary lay 'em down |
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You did your time so thank you very much |
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Hand it over (Hand it over) |
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Hand it over (Ooh-ooh) |
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So now your hopes are all laid |
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But you hand it all away |
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But you hand it all away |