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When I was a kid I grew up in a house on a hill |
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Not the top, not the bottom, but the middle |
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And I still remember where I cracked my head |
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In the vacant lot, there's a row of tiny houses there now |
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And we used to light fires in the gutters |
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And I could cool my head on the concrete steps |
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But the girl down the street hit my sister on the head |
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With a stick and we hid behind my father |
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As he knocked on the parents' door |
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To tell the them what she did |
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But the parents were drunk so they really didn't give a shit |
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And the girl down the street said a dog couldn't bark |
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'Cause a man with an axe cut its voicebox out |
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But my older sister told me that it prob'ly wasn't true |
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And I believe what she said 'cause she took me by the hand |
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One time when a coupla men drove down the hill in a white van |
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Said there was a phone box filled with money 'round the corner |
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And I woulda gone along but she took me by the hand |
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To the house in the middle of the hill |
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In the middle of the hill, in the middle of the hill |
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And my mother knew the words to a lot of different songs |
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And we'd always sing the harmonies, yeah we'd sing along |
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She had cold, cold hands when the fever hit |
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And then the noises that the trains made sounded like people in my head |
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And the stories that the ceiling told |
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Through the pictures and the grains in the pine-wood boards |
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And let me stay outside 'til the sky went red |
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And I could cool my head on the concrete steps |
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And you could never really see the top from the bottom |
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But I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em |
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And you could never really see the top from the bottom |
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I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em |
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I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em |
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I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em |
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I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em |
