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O Michelle |
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I'm coming down to see you |
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tonight is bruise black swelling goals and glee |
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I was in bed |
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but I had the dream again |
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where I drive us off the cliff to the ravine |
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and the car, a chevy |
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blue like the one in the photo of your father and you |
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blue like the label on the beer you always choose |
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blue like me and you Michelle |
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O Michelle |
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I went looking for the river |
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but I only made it to the railroad |
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there were these candles there |
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and some days ago cut flowers |
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for the guy who had the knife there by his friend |
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and my eyes could not adjust to the flames against the leaves |
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someone was watching from nearby |
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and I heard a phone chime from shallow in the trees |
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I had to come see you Michelle |
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O Michelle |
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we are trafficking in wonder |
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worshipping the wounds upon your cheek |
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just kiss me shy and I will love you |
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like a lamprey in the cool cool water in the creek |
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tornadoes transform into leaders changed |
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everyone we love will break on us like wings |
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so take your hands |
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and cover up your eyes and your face |
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tell me what you see now Michelle |
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O Michelle |
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uh the first line might come too late |
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so lets out drive the headlights in the stars |
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the roof held but only to the rain fell |
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now its leaking love inside my captain's car |
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and I tossed my chevrons out the window on the way over to you |
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uncle Sam he could meet me by the treehouse |
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he denying your husband |
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we can work it out like men |
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but we won't end up, bye |
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O Michelle |
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I can't say the things that I've seen |
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from the time that I was gone and then returned |
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but I got 5000 bucks |
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and a full tank of gas |
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and the stars and stripes reached out with a cigarette butt |
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if we leave right now we'll be there by morning |
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there'll be an anywhere but here |
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we can make a new start, we can make up new names |
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job already picked, yours Michelle |