| There's a picture on the wall
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| Of me on a John Deere
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| Jenny handed me a beer
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| Said, "How the hell did you get there?"
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| Oh, Oklahoma
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| Mm-mm, mm
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| There were flowers that were dry
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| Sittin' on the dresser
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| She asked me where they're from
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| I said, "A place I don't remember"
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| Oh, Oklahoma (Oh-oh)
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| Jenny jumped into the pool
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| She was swimmin' with Nikki Lane
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| She said, "Most men don't want a woman
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| With a legacy, it's of age"
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| She said "You can't be a muse and be happy, too
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| You can't blacken the pages with Russian poetry
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| And be happy"
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| And that scared me
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| 'Cause I met a man who
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| Said he'd come back every May
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| Just to help me if I'd paint my banisters blue
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| Blue banisters, ooh
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| Said he'd fix my weathervane
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| Give me children, take away my pain
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| And paint my banisters blue
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| My banisters blue
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| There's a hole that's in my heart
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| All my women try and heal
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| They're doin' a good job
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| Convincin' me that it's not real
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| It's heat lightning, oh-oh-oh, oh
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| 'Cause there's a man that's in my past
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| There's a man that's still right here
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| He's real enough to touch
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| In my darkest nights, he's shinin'
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| Ooh-ooh-ooh
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| Jenny was smokin' by the pool
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| We were writin' with Nikki Lane
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| I said I'm scared of the Santa Clarita Fires
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| I wish that it would rain
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| I said the power of us three can bring absolutely anything
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| Except that one thing
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| The diamonds, the rust, and the rain
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| The thing that washes away the pain
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| But that's okay, 'cause
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| Now when weather turns to May
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| All my sisters come to paint my banisters green
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| My blue banisters grey
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| Tex and Mex are in the Bay
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| Chucky's makin' birthday cake
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| Jake is runnin' barefeet, there's a baby on the way
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| And now my blue banisters are green and grey, ah-ah
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| Summer comes, winter goes
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| Spring, I skip, God knows
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| Summer comes, winter goes
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| Spring, I sleep, Heaven knows
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| Every time it turns to May
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| All my sisters fly to me
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| To paint, paint |