| Listen to my heartbeat
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| Yeah, all fall down someone help me off of the ground
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| Listen to my heartbeat
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| Yeah, all fall down someone help me off of the ground
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| Nelson and Starr
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| He’s got ten grandkids, she’s the third missus
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| He grooves around intensive care, strutting his stuff
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| He’s got a perfect mullet hanging down his back
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| And Starr walks in, gives a little wiggle
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| Makes old Nelson grin
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| He tucks me in, touches my feet
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| «Hey buddy, you know you got a slow heartbeat»
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| Listen to my heartbeat
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| Yeah, listen to my heartbeat
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| And the marching band plays along
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| Plays the morphine song on the charity ward
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| Yeah the marching band plays its song
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| Yeah, all fall down someone help me off of the ground
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| Yeah, all fall down someone help me off of the ground
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| And opposite me Brenda the alkie coughs so deep
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| It’s the drugs and the drink
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| It could happen to anyone
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| Sure makes me think
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| And the bed beside her is full of cables and leads
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| Nobody visits, nobody grieves
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| Listen to my heartbeat
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| Yeah, listen to my heartbeat
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| Nelson and Starr
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| He’s got ten grandkids, she’s the third missus
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| Starr takes some blood out of my arm
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| Rolls me over just like that
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| Listen to my heartbeat, slow but clean
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| While Brenda the alkie looks so mean
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| They wheel her out, she starts to cry
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| «If I don’t get better, I’m gonna die
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| I’ll go cold turkey till I’m clean
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| I’ll go to jail but you get the morphine»
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| Listen to my heartbeat lalalala lalalala
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| Yeah, listen to my heartbeat lalalala lalalala
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| And the marching band song
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| Plays in the morgue at the charity ward
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| Yeah, the marching band plays its song
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| Yeah, all fall down someone help me off of the ground
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| Listen to my heartbeat
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| Yeah, all fall down someone help me off of the ground |