| No strangers in this town
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| No one moves without making a sound
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| You live and die within the borders and lines
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| No one dies without paying their fines
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| No lovers in this town
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| The moon’s full but it sure ain’t round
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| And just because you lie in his bed
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| Don’t mean you meant the things you said
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| They marry young in these parts
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| They work the factories
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| So I ran as fast as I could
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| Through the tall grass and the midnight woods
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| So nobody would sing some bible song over me My cousin died in his sleep
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| Forty pills, two kids to keep
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| And how will she explain to those kids
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| About the sorry thing daddy did?
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| They marry young in these parts
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| They raise their kids and set them free
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| So I ran as fast as I could
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| Through the tall grass and the midnight woods
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| So nobody would sing some bible song over me They buried him out in the cold
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| He was only twenty-four years old
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| How his mother came undone
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| When the choir sang hallelujah
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| I ran as fast as I could
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| Through the tall grass and and the midnight woods
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| I ran as fast as I could
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| Through the tall grass and and the midnight woods
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| Hallelujah hallelujah -- ahhh
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| Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
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| Hallelujah hallelujah
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| Hallelujah |