| Ah, the sun beats down
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| On my tan and my well-fed body
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| And the fishermen at the end of the pier
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| Strike a chord of curiosity
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| With their thick lines
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| Yeah, they’ve caught something big
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| And they asked me
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| Can I lend a hand?
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| Want you to see
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| What I, I could not see
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| I want you to know
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| What I, I could not know
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| They got the ropes down underneath her
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| And we started, to pull her up, as she
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| Started to abandon all her children
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| As she got along-side the pier
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| I stared into her one sad eye
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| And I, I began to dream
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| I want you to see
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| What I, I could not see
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| I want you to know
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| What I, I could not know
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| The most beautiful thing I’d ever seen
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| Oh she’s, she’s staring back at me
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| She, was eight feet long
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| And she weighed four hundred twenty pounds
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| And I’ll name all her children
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| In hopes that they obtain
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| Some degree of her perfection
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| And it will take them all
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| Two years to hit the water
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| I want you to see
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| What I, I could not see
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| I want you to know
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| What I, I could not know
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| The most beautiful thing I’d ever seen
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| Oh she’s staring back at me
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| And she’s in my mind right now
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| Yeah, the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen
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| Alright, here’s the rub
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| She, she’s not comin'… back
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| Yeah, and that’s why I sing this song
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| Hey, I could not know
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| What I got myself into
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| I could not see, what I’d become
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| I believe, I guess believing
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| Won’t bring her on back
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| Yeah, take it away
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| Aw, everything
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| I’ll sit on a ledge… outside
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| For the tenth time
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| Too wide
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| Don’t wanna have to… |