Elias

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You raise your head, beat the sun
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But your boys they lie, so close to you
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Do you dare get up? And wake the two
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Oh Elias, I see you there, at work in the daytime do you think you could,
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answer all the questions of the world
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In just one word, I think you could.
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If you die will i get word that you're gone
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Or will i hear it in passing conversation
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Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
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Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
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Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
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Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
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Honest and Manuel well you know, they're at school now
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Getting the chance that, their father's never seen
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See whats beyond, section 17
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And in 10 years, when you look back at your boys
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well you know they've grown, way taller than the tallest sugar cane in the
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field
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If you die will i get word that you're gone
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Or will i hear it in passing conversation
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Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
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Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
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Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
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Hold my hand just one more time

Hold my hand just one more time
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Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet meee.
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And I see your wife, she stands, stooped over by the fire outside
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And I see your boys, and when they look up, you know i think they've got their
mother's eyes
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Cause she looks so proud, she looks so happy, she looks so proud, she looks so

happy,
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yeaahhh If you die will i get word that you're gone
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Or will i hear it in passing conversation
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Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
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Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
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Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
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Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
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Hold my hand just one more tiiiime (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
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Hold my hand ,one more time (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
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Dayah ya ya, yah yah yah, yah yah yah (Aya, Aya, Ayaahaha)
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Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me