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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