Intro:
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I cannot think of that song with this music on
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And I never want to go
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Back to Arkansas
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Even if you've gone from there
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Even if you've gone

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You handled me like an infant skull
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And I cradled you like a newborn nightmare
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and I always long, long to go back there
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straight back down the hallway and up the stairs
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to that bed

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I asked the deer, could the hunter she hear
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come a'creepin, creepin, creepin, creepin
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I whispered in her ear so sweet and sincere 
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but she was already dead a'sleepin
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The ground where she lay was red, sour and stained
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and I kissed her, kissed her, kissed her before I turned away 
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and I always want to go back there, straight back, down the path to the place 
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where she lay

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We can close our eyes and cry out to the darkness, there is still this light 
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in us
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There is this fight to be right where we belong
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This ribcage, it is a staircase 
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Climb, climb it to my iris
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you can live there, you know who I am 
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You know who I am
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I am your apple

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So open up the book and read to me your favorite passage
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And know that I will be right here and I will listen
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I hear you
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And I have heard you
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For one thousand years

Outro:
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