| Feel a shadow coming up behind me
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| It’s icy hand soon resting on my shoulder
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| Mother do you know what it’s like
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| To be every bit the stranger in all that you know
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| Hey mother where’s your little daughter
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| What do your arms surround
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| Do you remember the eyes that saw you for the first time
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| And never after
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| Well they’re here and looking fast behind me
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| From side to side in every waking moment
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| From oceans near and oceans far
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| To the very biggest cities and towns so small
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| These are the ways and the wounds of my world
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| Every day I walk another mile and
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| Every night I dream another dream where
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| I curse everything I’ve ever loved
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| I’ve destroyed every home that took me in
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| I think of all the things that I would tell you
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| I picture how so tight I would hold you
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| And how I would forgive all I missed
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| And cherish every second that we would spend
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| Still I wait but how much longer
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| Mother please put to sleep your little daughter
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| I can’t sleep I have no strenght
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| My blood boils fast from this fire within |