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[Verse 1]
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There's a place out on the edge of town, sir,
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Risin' above the factories and the fields
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Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember
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That mansion on the hill

[Verse 2]
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In the day you can see the children playing
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On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
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Steel gates that completely surround, sir,
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The mansion on the hill

[Verse 3]
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At night my daddy'd take me and we'd ride
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Through the streets of a town so silent and still
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Park on a back road along the highway side
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Look up at that mansion on the hill

[Verse 4]
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In the summer all the lights would shine
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There'd be music playin', people laughin' all the time
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Me and my sister, we'd hide out in the tall cornfields
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Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill

[Verse 5]
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Tonight down here in Linden Town
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I watch the cars rushin' by, home from the mill
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There's a beautiful full moon rising
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Above the mansion on the hill