When Winter Comes

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I read about your band in the 
entertainment news
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struck me how you sounded so 
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cynical
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for every Ocean Ranger and 
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penny-poor reserve
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you're wasted in a tavern with 
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other wasted birds
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but what about The Band?  What about
 the Guess Who?
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the day they made the charts in 
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Billboard magazine...
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All the Irish armies couldn't teach 
you
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Of independence, peace and 
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brotherhood

(same as above)
I hope I'm never bitter and I hope I
 never change
I hope I have a reason to be 
concerned
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for all the wounded divers and all 
the sunken crews
who wouldn't know the secrets of the
 deep had they waited on board
for someone wants a contract and 
someone wants a crumb
and some will dress in greasepaint 
on Video Hits (VH1)
all the Irish armies couldn't keep 
you
from standing there and speaking 
sabre-toothed

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Do you get the urge when winter 
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comes?

(same as above)
All the laughing scarecrows and all 
the cocaine dogs
couldn't bark me down my fence into 
the middle of your yard
someone wants a contract and someone
 wants a crumb
and some will dress in greasepaint 
and suck a lotta cock
all the Irish armies couldn't keep 
you
from hiking like an injured, aimless
 mule
do you get the urge when winter 
comes?
cut.

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in the blue Canadian winter i'll 
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follow your trail
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'til your love becomes a snowbank 
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hardened by gael
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when ice appears on matchsticks and
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 the salt trucks fail
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and coalmen hibernate through 
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their alarms

(same as above)
in the blue Canadian winter an 
iceman roams
building railroads made of iron 
sweat and skin
when you become thawed out
your love will swamp the tracks
and my heart will be restored with 
virgin blood

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warm, your warm
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Victoria