| A few dark words you said to me
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| I drew a blank and then I flew
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| I walked the plank into the blue
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| My heartbeat in leagues of silence
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| I walked along the coral snow
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| I saw some lights, an old hotel
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| The bell was rung, the glasses filled
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| That cloudy drink that blackens bile
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| The shade is drawn with stem and vine
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| Burned in the flame of a man condemned
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| With venom wine and golden dawn
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| A silver bullet in the chamber turning
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| You said at last
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| "Let's have a duel out by the pines, the day is warm"
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| I played the fool and when it passed
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| The gadflies swarmed and then they dined
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| The shade is drawn with stem and vine
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| Burned in the flame of a man condemned
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| With venom wine and golden dawn
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| A silver bullet in the chamber turning
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| The shade is drawn with stem and vine
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| Burned in the flame of a man condemned
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| With venom wine and golden dawn
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| A silver bullet in the chamber turning
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| The shade is drawn with stem and vine
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| Burned in the flame of a man condemned
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| With venom wine and golden dawn
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| A silver bullet in the chamber turning |