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Rose
02:53
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‘Cause baby doll no one eats like my friends
And no one needs them how I do
Let’s take our time and not worry
It’s all gonna be like them
Forty-one summers I spent inside the wreath
Fucking hungry, never knew I needed you
So content was I to play the thief
Chasing money all night
Thinking I could have defeated you
Lying awake
I couldn’t take
What I needed was a spark of fire in the rose
But thorny whispers in the crown, I suppose
Would mother save me? yes or no or so it goes
Would mother need me, even now, I don’t know
‘Cause baby doll no one eats like my friends
And no one needs them how I do
So take our time let’s not worry
It’s all gonna be just like them
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2. |
Before I Knew You
03:50
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Three thousand miles I went
Just to improve, I guess
I’ll lose some weight
And find my way home again
Three thousand miles I knew
Before I knew you
Yet I didn’t go
I was too scared to lose you
Don’t you let me down
Don’t you let me down
‘Cause I can’t take another one
Not of this kind
Four of the walls we see
Don’t stand a chance, do we?
All time will collapse
Like a point in the haystack
Four of the walls around
Keep me in check
Though I still may collapse
Like a hope in the aftermath
Don’t you let me down
Don’t you let me down
‘Cause I can’t take another one
Not of this kind
Don’t you let me down
Don’t you let me down
‘Cause I can’t take another one
Not of this kind
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The Bomb
03:56
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For my congregation
I won’t need but a penny to my name
And if the bomb will come
My dust will dance away
Across the lawn, speaking to the sun
Across the lawn, speaking to the sun:
Ah-rah-rah!
In your love, in your love
I’ll never fade away
And in my celebration
I shall meet David in the flesh
And if the bomb will come
Lord, our dust will dance away
Across the lawn, speaking to the sun
Across the lawn, speaking to the sun:
Ah-rah-rah!
In your love, in your love
Oh we’ll never fade away, never
In your love, never fade away
In your love, the dream is coming ‘way
The dream, oh the dream
In your love…
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House of the Rising Sun
05:46
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There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It’s been the ruin of many a poor girl
And me, oh God, I’m one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed these new blue jeans
My sweetheart was a gambler
Down in New Orleans
But the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and his trunk
And the only time he’s satisfied
Is when he’s on a drunk
Then he fills his glasses up to the brim
And he lays his cards around
The only pleasure he gets out of life
Is ramblin from town to town
So tell my baby sister
Not to do what I have done
But shun that house in New Orleans
That they call the Rising Sun
Now with one foot on the platform
And the other on the train
Lord, I’m going back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
I’m going there to New Orleans
My race is almost run
I’m going there to end my life
Down in the Rising Sun
You know there is a house in New Orleans
I call the Rising Sun
It’s been the ruin of many a bright girl
And me, I know, Lord knows, I’m one
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Frank Lyon Portland, Oregon
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