Jeremy

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We were young like the future  We 
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were young and always wrong
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We were young like our country, 
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learning old ways to be young

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Random driving around with you 
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in my dilapidated car

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like Isadora Duncan II in 
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impossibly long white scarves

played after "scarves" with syncopation:

E|---8-----8--8-----8-----8-----8-
B|--10-----8-10----11----10-----8-
G|--10----10-10----10----10----10-
D|--10----10-10----10----10----10-
A|--------------------------------
E|--------------------------------

E|----8----| 
B|---10----| 
G|---10----| 
D|---10----| 
A|---------| 
E|---------| 

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Autumn leaves, diaries, 
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Tennessee and Jeremy
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Suddenly, willow trees, memories
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 of Jeremy.


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          Bb                       
Like a Galapagos turtle we grow old
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 and stay that way,
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build a nest in the sand dunes, lay
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 our eggs and walk away
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I was writing our dreams down, 
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making maps of an unseen plane;
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and I noticed anomalies that 
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you'd rather not see explained.

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Autumn leaves, diaries, 
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Tennessee and Jeremy
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Suddenly, willow trees, memories
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 of Jeremy.

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We drove, canopy down, in the 
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scalding rain

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     on the one day we were   young

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    The house we bought was really
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 a lake

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    Otters scampered down the halls

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    There were whirlpools in the 
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floor and sails

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You're alone and it's over  You're 
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alone with your gun
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You're alone  From now on you're 
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all alone and you're not young.