Fall Of Troy

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  It's the same with men as with 
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horses and dogs
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  Nothing wants to die
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  Ethel and james they killed in a 
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game
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  With guns too big for their hands
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  Just off Saint Charles, in 
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no-man's land
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  And you'll have to find your own
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 way home, boys,
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  You'll have to find your own way
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 home

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  The oldest was Troy, an eighteen 
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year old boy
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  Shot dead in march, in a robbery
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  His brothers started out, to hell
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 and to ruin
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  Troy's killers were never, caught 
they say
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  Young Nick, he just went bad that 
day
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  Now he'll have to find his own 
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way home, boy's,
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  He'll have to find his own way 
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home

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  Why cook dinner,  why make my 
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bed,  why come home, at all
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  Out the door and through the 
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woods,
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  There's a world where nothing 
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grows

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  It's hard to say grace, and to 
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sit in the place
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  Of someone missing at the table
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  Mom's hair sprayed tight and her 
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face in her hands
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  Watching T.V. for answers to me
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  After all she's only human
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  And she's trying to find her own
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 way home, boy's
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  She's trying to find her own way
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 home

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  My legs ache, my heart is 
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sore, the well is full of pennies