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I knew a woman once |
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Giving birth to kittens and mice |
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And as you know with their eating habits |
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Those poor mice had to die |
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So the kittens were born |
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Full of their brothers and sisters |
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And they were punished swiftly |
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Though they didn't know why |
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They thought they were food |
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They did not know what they'd done |
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And I was a person once |
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Sending off unread letters |
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Receiving no reply |
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Never bothering asking why |
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I had a heart once |
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Full of fire and passion |
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But the summer took it away from me |
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And autumn has come to retrieve it |
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And I was a man once |
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When I was six-years-old |
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But now I am just a boy |
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Pretentious and brash and bold |
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The kittens were murdered |
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Thrown into burlap sacks |
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And weighted down with rocks |
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In a river deep and black |
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And they went to Heaven |
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They went to Heaven |