My Antonia

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[Verse 1]
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I imagine you in a place wide 
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open and beautiful
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Where the sun sets wildly over the 
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horizon,
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In the moment you learned we can't
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 concentrate on everything,
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Though it breaks your heart as 
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strongly as you'd like to.

[Verse 2]
      D                     B     
These sun bleached memories see 
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you stand on the beach aside the 
ocean,
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Underneath the clouds above the 
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badlands.

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I see your picture like a still 
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frame standing strongly beneath the
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 sun,
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When it was you, me and no one but
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 the ghosts we shared.
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Though there was always talk, we 
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could have lived without it,
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Though we'd come to doubt it, 
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always surrounded by it.
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And for whatever lost, there were 
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the hundred things we'd learned.
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To the point of no return we would
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 stand by it.

[Verse 3]
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And I imagine you like all that's 
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pure left in America,
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The red grass prairies, the 
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Niobrara river.
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Though in the moment you learned 
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we can't concentrate on everything,
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You will always be my Antonia 
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Shimerda.