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Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers |
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Leave the light on at the top of the stairs |
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Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky |
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A tree taps on the window pane |
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That feeling smothers me again |
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Daddy is it true that we all have to die |
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At the top of the stairs |
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Is darkness |
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I closed my eyes and when |
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I looked Your name was in the memorial book and what had become of all the things we planned |
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I accepted the commiserations |
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Of all your friends and your relations |
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But there's some things |
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I still don't understand |
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You were so tall |
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How could you fall? |
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Some photographs of a summer's day |
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A little boy's lifetime away |
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Is all I've left of everything we've done |
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Like a pale moon in a sunny sky |
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Death gazes down as |
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I pass by |
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To remind me that |
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I'm but my father's son |
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I offer up to you |
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This tribute |
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I offer up to you |
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This tank park salute |