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[Verse 1]
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The day's been a while fading

Seems like we have slowed
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My eyes are getting weary
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Can barely see the road

Been a while since we left behind the city lights
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There's just a line winding through the night

[Verse 2]
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Yesterday's lie scattered

Like broken swords and shields
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Like the used up shells and bullets
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On a hundred battlefields
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When, I think of all the close calls

Both sides of love and death
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Sometimes I can hardly get my breath

[Chorus]
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But I'll follow the ribbon anyhow
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I'll follow the ribbon
A
That's all right for now
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Up in the high country
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Or down where the river flows

Wherever it goes

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[Bridge]
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Don't care if they like it
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Don't care if they don't
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Never did much care about
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If they will or won't
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If all you want to know is acorns
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Rootin' me a patch of earth
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What can you praise
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That's really any worth

[Verse 3]
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I'm just living with the ringing

Of tomorrow's ancient rhymes
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The road ahead may be shorter
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Than the one we left behind
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If there's whiskey in the bottle

Leave some for me
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I'll get to it, eventually

[Chorus]
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I'll follow the ribbon
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By the cold lagoon
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Follow the ribbon
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Under the helpless moon
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Winding through the dark hills
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Where a million stars a-falls
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Wherever it goes