[Intro] Am

[Primeira Parte]

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I work on the border
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I see what I see
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I work on the border
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And it’s working on me

[Segunda Parte]

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I lie awake at night
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Knowing what I know
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There’s a price on my head
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Of every border patrol

[Terceira Parte]

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Where the smugglers do business
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That’s where I make a stand
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I know this old desert
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Like the back of my hand

[Quarta Parte]

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I see greed in the bushes
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I see snakes in the dark
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Some are friends of my brothers
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Can’t you hear them dogs bark

[Refrão]

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I come home to Maria
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At the end of the day
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In thе shape of a shadow
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Holding demons at bay
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‘It’s just a border’ thеy say

[Quinta Parte]

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It was Mexican soldiers
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Out of a black Humvee
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With their guns to their shoulders
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Aimed at my partner and me

[Sexta Parte]

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As they drove away laughing
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But the message was clear
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We don’t care about nothing
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But the money down here

[Refrão]

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I come home to Maria
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In a bulletproof vest
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With the weight of the whole wide world
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Barring down on my chest
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It’s just a border I guess

[Ponte]

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From the shacks and the shantys
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Come the hungry and poor
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Some to drown at the crosses
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Some to suffer no more

[Sétima Parte]

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Guess you heard about Campos
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And Ramien
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Both of them friends of mine
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Both good men

[Oitava Parte]

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They did one thing right
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And look what they got
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Federal prison
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Where they’re both going to rot

[Refrão]

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I come home to Maria
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Where else would I go
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Cross the River to die by myself
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Down In old Mexico
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It’s just the border y’know