Born In The Spring

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There were lovely red flowers 
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lining the trees
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And they smelled like perfume on 
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the hand of a queen
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The car read “Just Married” on the 
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back window
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The future was open, how could we 
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ever have known?
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From South San Diego, to 
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Portland, Maine
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I have traveled this country 
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seeking my fame
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And through all the what fors, the
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 flames and trap doors
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Through which all of us fell, 
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stories that I cannot tell
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And I wish that I...

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[Verse 2]
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Now the ocean tide’s coming up 
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with the moon
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I’m afraid we’re all living at 
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sea level too
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And we’re seeing this part of the 
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tragedy through
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When the bottle will break, the 
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cradle will fall down on you
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The second rate author of his own
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 epitaph
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All this potent potential 
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destroyed in the graph
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You think to yourself, I’ll get 
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lucky at cards
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But you don’t even know who the 
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hell that you are, and I
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Still I wish that I...was born in 
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the spring

[Bridge]
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Son of a, son of, son of a bitch
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‘Cause the daughters are damned, 
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that’s the way that it is
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Nothing much changes out in the sun
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When the wine that you drink is the
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 wine you become

[Verse 3]
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Or you say maybe this time I can 
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dig out of this
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So the family relents and you get
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 yourself pissed
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And suddenly everyone has got 
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some advice
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You sell their suggestions 
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without thinking twice
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The friends that I’ve had and the
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 friends that I’ve made
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The friends that I’ve lost through
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 my hapless mistakes
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And isn’t it all just a slap in 
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the face
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That no single person could take 
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up the place of her
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And I wish that I...was born in the
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 spring
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Born in the spring
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‘Cause everyone’s gone, we all 
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die don’t you know
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Are you so disappointed it all 
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was a show
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And the first love you had was the 
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only thing real
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And what brought it together in 
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the end was the kill and I
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Still I wish that I...was born in 
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the spring