| Wash it in the sea, let it soak all night
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| Wash it in the sea, let the saltwater wash it away
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| Soak it in bleach 'til it’s white on white
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| Soak it in bleach 'til the blood just washes away
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| Hang it in the wind, let it blow all night
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| Hang it up high, let the high wind blow it away
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| Hang it in the wind, let the sun burn bright
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| Hang it in the wind 'til the blood just washes away
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| I have waited wasted years for the child
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| That’s come and gone today
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| Say what about this wasted fear
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| How can I just turn and wash it away?
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| If I can, then I will wash it away
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| If she can, then she will wash it away
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| Forty years spent one by one
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| Forty years of life just slipping away
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| What I’d give for a firstborn son
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| Forty years of blood just washing away
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| I have waited wasted lives
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| I have waited long enough I’d say
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| Say what about this wasted child
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| How can I just turn and wash it away?
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| If I can, then I will wash it away
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| If she can, then she will wash it away
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| So send me an angel
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| Send me the ghost that I was
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| Yeah, send me an angel
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| Send me the ghost that I was
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| That I was, that I am
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| I will wash it away
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| She will wash it away |