| Spit into the center of your home town
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| There is leaves in the street and there are friends around you now
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| All the days of your life in a line
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| All the way that it seemed by '89
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| But it’s not all right
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| It’s not even close to all right
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| Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| We lie awake at night in a tent and I say
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| «Tell me about your uncle and his friend
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| Cause they seem like very bad men
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| Well, we wanna keep away from them.»
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| Bend in the road back there, we saw the place to go
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| Tell me about the greatest show or the greatest movie you know
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| Or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio
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| You’re gonna play it again and again, it cuts off at the ending, though
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| Tell me I’m always gonna be your best friend
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| Now you said it one time, why don’t you say it again?
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| All the way down the line to where the telephone ends
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| Come on and shout it on down the wire
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| But it’s not all right
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| Not even close to all right
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| Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| And as the rescue party, the volunteer team
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| Ah, they’re just kids of eighteen, and it’s the worst thing they’ve seen
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| And they’re standing all around that tree
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| And I’m so sorry that I can’t stop crying
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| (Oh, I know.)
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| Shivering from the late fall cold
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| I felt like a solid ghost
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| I ran and then I couldn’t slow
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| My father found me though, my father took me home
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| He said, «Oh, son, I saw you get knocked down
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| And I ran out. |
| I bet your head was spinning
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| With that bright pain you stunned
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| When you’ve only just begun to be only just beginning.»
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| Tossed in the viper pit, all those feelings and fears
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| And all that difficult shit in all those tender years
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| There was something in the air, something gathered in the air
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| Something singing in the wind
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| Oh, I’ll be your fighter and you’ll be my mirror
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| And you’ll be all right because I’ll be right here
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| Oh kid, now I’m not going anywhere
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| I swear I’ll try to not be going anywhere
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| Though it’s not all right. |
| It’s so far from all right
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| We’ll make it into a choice somehow
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| I don’t know, but you’ll have a choice somehow
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| Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| We can never go back; |
| we can only remember
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Maybe they told you about the summer sky
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| Maybe said there’s a great gold spirit in the summer sky
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| All your friends (all your best, best friends)
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| Are gonna gather around your bed at night
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| Well that’ll make it all right because it is still so far from all right
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| Oh, kid, I know
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| Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Up the stairs four flights up; |
| can you feel my heart shiver?
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Waking in the dawn with that dream getting dimmer and dimmer
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| I said, «Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down the deep river?
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| Oh, down the deep river?»
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Down down, down down, down the deep river. |
| Down, down the deep river
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Why don’t you, why don’t you say you still see it, say you remember?
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down,
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| are we going down?
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down,
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| are we going down the deep river?
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)
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| Because I know it’s scary, baby
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| (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) |