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Nah nah nah nah Nothing changes in a dreary coastal town Something strange is going down Behind the curtain Ancient secrets hidden somewhere underground Where they’re never to be found Can’t be certain Read the warning From a distant drum Something dark And wicked this way come Crooked stranger it’s misfortune that he brings To each and every living thing Within our border Town officials make their grand and costly plans But are blood is on the hands of there supporters No one told me There’d be nights like these Spirits dance to haunted melodies Kerosene and candlelight Keep us from the dark of night By the flicker of the flame Shine on through the morning light Casting shadows on the wall God have mercy on us all Cross your fingers hold your tongue Something wicked this way comes Nah nah nah nah Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah Nah nah nah nah Weeds grow through the pavement Here in our hometown Where the roots dig deeper Down beneath the surface Kerosene and candlelight Keep us from the dark of night By the flicker of the flame Shine on through the morning light Casting shadows on the wall God have mercy on us all Cross your fingers hold your tongue Something wicked this way comes

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Sleepy town nestled by the ocean There’s a welcome sign on every door Years from now a tidal will come along And place it on the ocean floor Take me down, down by the water We can build a fire by the shore We belong to the land of the living But we don’t wanna live there anymore Live there anymore I’ll organize a proper expedition We can set out on a new frontier Chart a course tracking our position As we watch the living disappear Follow me down by the harbor We can launch our voyage and explore We belong to the land of the living But we don’t wanna live there anymore Set the sails follow that horizon As we leave the living in our wake You can be Ferdinand Magellan And I, I will be Sir Francis Drake Lets embark on a brand new adventure Boldly go where no ones gone before We belong to the land of the living But we don’t wanna live there anymore Implement our own constitution Upon a far distance shore We belong to the land of the living But we don’t wanna live there anymore Live there anymore We don’t live there anymore Live there anymore We don’t live there anymore

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Take a look at this paperback book Pages all tattered and torn Held together by a blue rubber band Jacket so faded and worn We all need a little change to help rearrange The chapters that make up this book If you need a helping hand now and again I’ll be your blue rubber band Joy in tears throughout all the years Make up this story so far Days like these bring a man to his knees Test the strength of his heart We all need a little change to help rearrange The chapters that make up this book If I need a helping hand now and again Would you be a blue rubber band Baby blue Baby blue Blue Who

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sleep sleep peacefully never you fear rosie my dear be see nearly 17 years since ou were last here moon shone bright when we married to that light neath the flowers of the yard i'll keep you near like a fading souvenier near to my heart sleep sleep peacully suffer no more the burden you bore maybe we'll be together once more on a faraway shore seeds are sown now the weeds are overgrown kill the flowers in the yard nobody knows where your garden grows it's here in my heart here in my heart

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another day is done another race is run another setting sun over the bay and i'm the first born son of a skileld electrician here in Bradonton, FLA and there's graffiti on the watertower for everyone to read drive around the city streets for hours they are the best of times they are the worst of times they are the days of our lives not long after dark down at the baseball park kids cheer and dogs will bark in celebration but all the old folks say if we stay out to late cemetary gates swing wide open and all the spirits of our great gandfasthers will haunt the streets at night they float around like they were underwater and when the music plays they miss the salad days they miss the days of their lives

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board a sinking ship on an angry sea longing for the faces of my friends and family shine a light on me guide my way back home sail the seven dseas aagainst a mighty wind longing for a place i may never see again shine a light on me however far i roam full steam ahead secure the cargo below a wicked storm is blowing through the gulf of mexico shine a light on me cuz i'm your wayward son and as the bitter wind blows through my tattered soul the boat is taking water and i can;t patch all the holes shine your light on me and guide my way back home i wish i may and i wish i might sail this wayward vessel home tonight shine a light me and guide my way back home full steam ahead secure the cargo below a wicked storm is blowing through the gulf of mexico shine a light on me however far i roam sent an SOS calling ship ashore she's taken it so far but she won't take anymore

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simon got drafter spent a few years in the service left home a boy came back a troubled young man now he walks with a limp he stutters a bit when he's nervous but if you ask simon he'll say it's just part of God's plan going out to find me a new song to sing shake off these sleepy town blues laugh and well drink til we cant feel a thing as we cling to the world by the soles of our shoes ruby worked nights at a bar in the old dixie highway her husband ran of with a jewley store clerk half his age desperate one night she got drunk she jumped off the skyway her body washed up in the harbor the very next day going out to buy this town a new name a name everybody can use so ill buy a round and you do the same as we cling to this world by the soles of our shoes

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between the plastic surgery and credit card receiptsthe child goes to bed without a bite to eatthe prince denies a shilling to the beggar in the streetand callously retires to his presidential suiteand if we celebrate the celebrity and the joy it bringsadore the overprivelged just for having fancy tingsworship at the altar of our plasma tv screeninside the pages of our fashion magazineswe're singing na na nafuture civilization studies people of todayexcavate our ruins and examine our remainscatalog our plastic parks and put them on displaya mystery museum out in spacelike a vessel in the oceanwe get swallowed by the wavesdozen life preserves and a thousand lives to savegive them to the highest biddertell the others to be bravethey sink down to the bottomthrough their teeth and lonely graves they're singingna na nasing a merry melody like sparrows in a gilded agesing a joyful chorus sons and daughters of the gilded agetravel bells are ringing and the storm is drawing nearpreacher's at the pulpit lacing opium with feardevil's in the parlor with a grin from ear to earthe economy is crumbling like castles in the sand daddy's in his office with a shotgun in his handmommy's in the shopping mall she's working in her tanand i'm in the tavern singing with the band

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now mama can you hear that ghost train coming coming on down the line mama can't you feel that cold wind blowing blowing all through the pines the lips are coming for to take the final breath from my chest however far i may roam suffer my one and only dying request carry my body home oh mama when you hear that old death rattle bring me back to Breeding town mama can you see that old black shadow creeping up from behind the lips are coming for to take the final breath from my chest however far i may roam suffer my one and only dying request carry my body home oh mama when you hear that old death rattlebring me back to Breeding town

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there was money on the tablethere was murder in his eyes serve some time and wait for present killed half a dozen guy seven in that smokey barroom could see through his disguise when i played the queen of diamond she was taken by surprised there was whiskey on the table there was trouble in the air yes he didn't see it coming when i beat him fair and square and i can swear i saw the devil asa shot me such a glare if a look could kill a person i'd die right then and there there was tension at the table tension all around the room hanging heavy in the parlor like the air inside a tomb there was a moment of confusion words and accusations flew and a single shot was fired a loaded 22 there lay asa on the table he had blood on his lapel when he reached for his revolver musta reached for mine as well asa had it coming far as anyone can tell that's exactly how it happenedthe night that asa fell

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see the shepard up on high underneath his watchful eye flocks sleep well within his sight everyone knows he's a wolf in shepards clothes there'll be blood shed here tonight see the captian at the helm he's the master of his realm searching for uncharted lands all the crew can tell he's confused an underwhelmed lost faith in his commands state his opinion he can't make us think it lead us to poison can't make us drink it we got the number while the captain slumbers we gotta cut him down see the king up on his throne in a castle made of stone well protected from attack polishing his crown while the city's fallin down we're gonna take our city back state his opinion he can't make us think it lead us to poison can't make us drink it we got the number while the captain slumbers we gotta cut him down i'm just a crooked and walks a crooked mile casts a crooked shadow and has a crooked smile carves his own initials into every newborn child i'll be gone when he comes around stranger's unforgiving he's older than the hill she hides inside the inkwell from a jealous lover's quill waits in the moon shine whiskey from an old bootleggers' still i'll be gone when he comes around i'll be gone when he comes around