| (Strange things happening in the land.
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| Strange things happening in the land.
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| Wars going on. |
| Hold our heart to mourn.
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| Strange things happening in the land.)
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| (Strange things happening)
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| (Wars going on.)
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| (Strange things happening.)
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| Have come to carry me, carry me on.
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| Carry me on, my mother’s prayers.
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| Carry me on, my mother’s prayers.
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| Dark waters have come to carry my cares,
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| So take me on my mother’s prayers.
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| Don’t you leave no candle to burn.
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| Don’t leave no candle, to burn.
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| I leave with the waves, 'neath the stern.
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| Don’t you leave no candle to burn.
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| Have come to carry me on.
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| I’ll leave with the evening on my breath.
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| I’ll leave with the evening on my breath.
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| You’ll find my letters when I’ve left.
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| I’m gonna leave. |
| The evening on my breath.
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| I won’t remember the fires of home
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| Won’t remember the fires of my home.
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| My homeless bones churn them ragged stones.
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| I won’t remember fires of my home.
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| Wild and wasted waters.
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| Have come to carry me on.
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| May the sickness of my heart be told.
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| May the sickness of my heart be told.
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| Let it bleed out in the coffee shop and stagger in the road.
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| May the sickness of my heart be told.
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| Wild and wasted water.
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| Wild and wasted water.
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| Wild and wasted water.
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| Have come to carry me —
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| Carry me on, carry me on,
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| Carry me — yes, on. |