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Micheline - Sun Kil Moon |
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Micheline used to come to our house |
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and knock on our door. |
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My dad would answer and say, |
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"What do you want girl?" |
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and she'd say, |
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"Can I take a bath with Mark?" |
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My dad would say, |
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"My son ain't here," |
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send her home and shut the door |
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and we'd all laugh. |
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And Micheline would walk down the street glowing |
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and smiling like she just got |
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Paul McCartney's autograph. |
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Her brain worked a little slower than the others; |
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she wore thick-rimmed glasses. |
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She took a different bus to school than other kids |
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and was in different kid of classes. |
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When she got older a neighborhood thug |
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moved in with her |
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and started taking her welfare payments. |
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He took her down to the bank, |
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helped her withdraw her savings |
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that was put away for her |
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and he went off with it. |
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The cops caught up with him, |
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he did a little time and cut too many years later. |
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He's doing life in a Florida penitentiary with his father, |
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both of them for murder. |
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Micheline, Micheline. |
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Micheline, Micheline. |
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Micheline, Micheline, Micheline. |
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She wanted love like anyone else. |
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Micheline, Micheline, Micheline, |
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She have a dream like anyone else. |
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My friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett, |
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he liked to play the guitar. |
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But he had an awkward way of playing |
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barre chords with two fingers spreading his index |
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and middle fingers really far apart. |
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One day in band practice he dropped like a deer |
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was shot and was flipping around like a fish. |
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He had an aneurysm triggered by a nerve |
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in his hand from the strain he was putting on it. |
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I went to see him in Ohio; he had a horseshoe |
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shaped scar on his scalp and he talked real slow. |
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We played pool like we did in our teens |
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and his head was shaved |
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and he still wore bell-bottomed jeans. |
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In '99 I was on tour in Sweden when I called home |
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To tell my mom that I got a part in a movie |
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when she said "Mark, |
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there's something that you need to know." |
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"Brett died the other day, you really |
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should send a letter to his mom and dad. |
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" And I got on my train in Malmo |
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and looked out at the snow feeling somewhere |
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between happy and sad. |
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My friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett. |
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My friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett. |
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My friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett. |
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He had a wife and a son. |
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My friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett, |
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my friend Brett. |
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He just liked to play guitar |
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and he never hurt anyone. |
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My grandma, |
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my grandma, |
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my grandma, |
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my grandma, |
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my grandma, |
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my grandma. |
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Before she passed away we'd go |
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and visit her at my aunt's house when I was small. |
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I couldn't bear the shape |
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she was in so at the top of the driveway |
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I'd sit in the car. |
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One day I was just fucking around |
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when I put it in reverse and I was free-falling. |
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I remember the car moving backwards; |
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my heart was beating and I blacked out. |
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Another car was coming down the street and |
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I totaled them both and I got knocked out. |
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My grandma, |
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my grandma, |
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my grandma, |
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my grandma, |
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my grandma, |
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my grandma. |
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First time I met her, she lived in L.A.; |
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I think it was Huntington Park. |
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I made friends with a kid named |
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Marceau and another kid named Cyrus Hunt. |
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We'd go downtown and get ice cream |
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and feed french fries to the pigeons |
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and talk to the handicapped vets from Vietnam. |
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It was the first time I saw a hummingbird, |
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a palm tree, or a lizard. |
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Or saw an ocean, or heard |
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David Bowie's |
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"Young Americans" |
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and I saw the movie |
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"Benji" in theaters. |
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My grandma, my grandma. |
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My grandma, my grandma. |
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My grandma, my grandma, |
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my grandma. |
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I heard she had a pretty hard life. |
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But after her first husband passed away |
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she met a man from California |
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and he treated her really nice. |
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My grandma, my grandma. |
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My grandma, my grandma. |
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My grandma, my grandma, |
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my grandma. |
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Was diagnosed at 62. |
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Her kids stepped up to the plate for her |
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and were there the whole way through. |
