| I pushed your head down
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| Flat onto the page
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| I held the weapon
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| Flat against your face
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| I remembered the promise
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| That I had made
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| And turned the pen back
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| Back onto myself
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| So you can stick your words of comfort
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| And you can take your well wishes too
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| Singing allez les blues
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| 'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
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| Allez les blues
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| I know your shape and
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| I know your size
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| You are the weight of the concrete boots
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| That pull me under the tide
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| And now you’re marching on to a different drum
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| Leaving my body here without a beat
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| A body drained of all feeling
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| Could be nothing but a piece of meat
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| So you can stick your words of comfort
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| And you can take your well wishes too
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| We’re singing allez les blues
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| 'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
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| Allez les blues
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| 'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
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| Allez les blues
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| This lump in my throat
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| Is the knot that you tied
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| With a flick of your tongue
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| And a wink of your eye
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| This lump in my throat
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| Is the knot that you tied
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| With a flick of your tongue
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| And a wink of your eye
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| This lump in my throat
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| (I've been sitting sidesaddle on the devil’s chair)
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| Is the knot that you tied
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| (I've been muddying upholstery, you didn’t care)
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| With a flick of your tongue
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| (We've been clinking glasses right into the dead of night)
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| And a wink of your eye
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| (Yeah, but the fire keeps me warm and keeps my heart alive)
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| This lump in my throat
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| (I've been sitting sidesaddle on the devil’s chair)
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| Is the knot that you tied
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| (I've been muddying upholstery, you didn’t care)
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| With a flick of your tongue
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| (We've been clinking glasses right into the dead of night)
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| He burns a fire, keeps me warm
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| And keeps my heart alive
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| You pushed my head down
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| Flat onto the page
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| You held the weapon
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| Flat to my face
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| You remembered the promise
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| That you would break
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| But now the bloodline
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| Runs through my veins
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| 'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
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| Allez les blues
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| They hold me closer than you would ever do
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| Allez les blues |