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I knew a woman once
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giving birth to kittens and mice
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and as you know their eating habits
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Those poor mice had to die
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so the kittens were born
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full of their brothers and sisters
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And they were punished swiftly
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though they did not know why


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They thought they were food
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they did not know what they'd done


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And I was a person once
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sending off unread letters
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receiving no reply
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never bothering asking why
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I had a heart once
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full of fire and passion
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but the summer took it away from me


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And autumn has come to retrieve it
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autumn has come to retrieve it


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And I was a man once
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When I was six-years-old
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but now I am just a boy
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pretentious and brash and bold
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The kittens were murdered
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thrown into burlap sacks
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and weighted down with rocks
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in a river deep and black


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And they went to Heaven.
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They went to Heaven.