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SHADOWS AND STORM CLOUDS (Pain)

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Some are born to sweet delight, others to endless night. (William Blake)

To get along with me, don’t increase my tension. (Ty Cobb)

This present darkness. (Ephesians 6:12)

Like hot-house plants set down on a bomb site, they are doomed from the start, their exotic beauty withered by the arid ground, mean surroundings and bleak economic climate. Those born to endless night are a renegade breed, unable to conform and poisoned by the beauty that seeps through their pores. Helpless in the face of genius that beats them back like an open blast furnace. All of the damned, whether they destroyed themselves or lingered on, were eaten away by the world.

Hellhound on my trail every place I go.

(Robert Johnson).

Blues and trouble, they was glad to shake my hand. (Robert Jr. Lockwood)

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. (Mark

Twain)

Blood will flow when flesh and steel are one

Drying in the color of the evening sun.

Tomorrow's rain will wash the stain away,

But something in our minds will always stay.

On and on the rain will fall,

Like tears from a star, like tears from a star.

On and on the rain will say

How fragile we are, how fragile we are.

(Sting)

The tears flowed like wine.

Excess of job or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. When the trial lasts, the strength to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself. Secretly sustained, Jacob can wrestle all night, but he must limp in the morning when the contest is over.

(Charles Spurgeon)

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Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church

Where the wedding has been

Lives in a dream

Waits at the window wearing the face

That she keeps in a jar by the door

Who is it for?

All the lonely people where do they all come from?

All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

(Lennon & McCartney)

Wyatt Earp to Doc Holliday: "Doc, what makes Johnny Ringo so mean?" "He has a hole through the middle of him that all the violence and destruction in the world can't fill." "But what caused the hole, Doc?" "The need for revenge, Wyatt." "But revenge for what, Doc?"

"For being born."What do you want out of life anyway, Wyatt?" "I just want to lead a normal life, Doc." "Wyatt, you know there's no such thing as a normal life." (From the movie,

"Tombstone")

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle for bread; they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; shames and humiliations bring down their prides and their vanities; those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. The burden of pain, care, misery, grows heavier year by year; at length, ambition is dead, pride is dead; vanity is dead; longing for release is in their place. It comes at last

—the only un-poisoned gift earth ever had for them —and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness; there they have left no sign that they have existed

—a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever. Then another myriad takes their place, and copies all they did, and goes along the same profitless road, and vanishes as they vanished —to make room for another, and another, and a million other myriads, to follow the same arid path through the same desert, and accomplish what the first myriad, and all the myriads that came after it, accomplished

— nothing! (Mark Twain)

"Does the road wind up-hill all the way?"

"Yes, to the very end."

"Will the day’s journey take the whole long day?"

"From morn to night, my friend."

(Christini Rosetti)

She lives alone with no one who can see she’s unhappy

She knows what she’s lost, still she’s waiting for more

She could be living in hell and not know someone loves her

What can she do, what is she waiting for?

The day turns to night,

He just can’t find the right words to tell her

Twisting and turning and looking for something to say

If you would let me hold you

I wouldn’t walk away

That’s what he wants, that’s what he wants to say

What can she lose, what is she waiting for?

He knows when she cries and he saw through the lies that she told him

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She’s dreaming and planning a vow she could ask him to stay

If you would let me love you, I wouldn’t be the same

Please can we tr y, please can’t we try again?

(Maryanne Faithfull)

Alone Again (Naturally)

In a little while from now

If I’m not feeling any less sour

I promise myself to treat myself

And visit a nearby tower

And climbing to the top will throw myself off

In an effort to make it clear to who

Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered

Left standing in the lurch at a church

Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough

She's stood him up"

No point in us remaining

We may as well go home

As I did on my own

Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday

I was cheerful, bright and gay

Looking forward to well, wouldn’t do

The role I was about to play

But as if to knock me down

Reality came around

And without so much, as a mere touch

Cut me into little pieces

Leaving me to doubt

Talk about God and His mercy

Or if He really does exist

Why did He desert me in my hour of need

I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that there are more hearts broken in the world that can’t be mended

Left unattended

What do we do? What do we do?


Now looking back over the years

And whatever else that appears

I remember I cried when my father died

Never wishing to hide the tears

And at sixty-five years old

My mother, God rest her soul,

Couldn’t understand why the only man

She had ever loved had been taken

Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken

Despite encouragement from me

No words were ever spoken

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And when she passed away

I cried and cried all day



(Gilbert O'Sullivan)

I’m a thousand miles from nowhere

Time don’t matter to me.

I’m a thousand miles from nowhere

There’s no place I want to be.

I got heartaches in my pocket

I got echoes in my head.

I’m a thousand miles from nowhere.

(Dwight Yokum)

I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then. (Bob Seger)

Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, died alone of pneumonia.

He had a lot of happiness lock away inside of him, really padlocked, and it never came out — just the feeling of sadness. It was always there.

The coffin was open and I remember thinking, boy he really looks uncomfortable in there.

(Fellow musicians & friends of Mr. T.)

The blues they start rollin’

And they start at my front door.

My life has b een like a rollin’ stone.

Until I find someone that loves me

Guess I’ll just keep on movin’ on.

Someday, someday, I’m gonna be six feet in my grave

There’ll be no more worries and I won’t have to feel this way.

I SEE A DARKNESS

Well, you're my friend

And can you see

Many times we've been out drinking

Many times we've shared our thoughts

Did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got

Well you know I have a love, for everyone I know

And you know I have a drive, for life I won't let go

But sometimes this opposition, comes rising up in me

This terrible imposition, comes blacking through my mind

And then I see a darkness

Oh no, I see a darkness

Do you know how much I love you

Cause I'm hoping some day soon

You'll save me from this darkness

Well I hope that someday soon

We'll find peace in our lives

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Together or apart

Alone or with our wives

And we can stop our whoring

And draw the smiles inside

And light it up forever

And never go to sleep

My best unbeaten brother

That isn't all I see

(Johnny Cash)

HURT

I hurt myself today

To see if I still feel

I focus on the pain

The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole

The old familiar sting

Try to kill it all away

But I remember everything

What have I become

My sweetest friend

Everyone I know goes away

In the end

And you could have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

(Trent Reznor)

This gettin up early, pulling double shifts,

Gonna make an old man of me long before I ever get rich.

But I'm tryin

It's been two years since we've finalized,

I still ain't used to puttin ex in front of wife.

But I'm tryin.

Send more money right away, is pretty much all she has to say when she

Calls these days and don't you be late

But all I can do, is all I can do and I keep on tryin

There's always a mountain in front of me,

Seems I'm always climbin and fallin and climbin

But I keep on tryin

I remember daddy sayin keep your eye on the ball, run like hell, play to win,

Get up when you fall

I'm tryin

Don't say nothin that you can't take back

Never do anything you might regret

No don't do that

Daddy I'm tryin

Know the difference between heaven and hell

Go easy on the bottle be hard on yourself

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And I know he meant well

But all I can do, is all I can do and I keep on tryin

And all I can be is all I can be and I keep on tryin

There's always a mountain in front of me,

Seems I'm always climbin and fallin and climbin

But I keep on tryin

There's always a mountain in front of me

Seems I'm always climbin and stumblin

And then fallin'

And then climbin'

But I keep on tryin'

(Chris Wallin/Jeffrey Steele/Anthony Smith)

DESPEREADO

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?

You been out ridin' fences for so long now.

Oh, you're a hard one,

But I know that you've got your reasons.

These things that are pleasin' you,

Can hurt you somehow.

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy,

She'll beat you if she's able.

Know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.

Now it seems to me, some fine things,

Have been laid upon your table.

But you only want the things that you can't get.

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger:

Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home.

And freedom, oh freedom,

Well, that's just some people talkin'

Your prison is walking,

Through this world all alone.

And don't your feet get cold in the winter time?

The sky won't snow, the sun won't shine

It's hard to tell the night time from the day

You're loosin' all your highs and lows

Ain't it funny how the feeling,

Goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?

Come down from your fences, and open the gate

It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you,

You better let somebody love you,



Before it's too late. (The Eagles)

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What Will I Do?

What will I do when you are far away and I am blue

What will I do?

What will I do when I am wondering who is kissing you?

What will I do with just a photograph to tell my troubles to?

When I'm alone with dreams of you that won't come true

What will I do? What will I do?

I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay

Watching the tide roll away, wasting' time.

(Otis Redding)

They were as lucky as poker players on the Titanic.

Tonight she lives with memories, the music, and the wine

When someone finds a new love, it always breaks another's heart

When somebody feels a new love, another's world falls apart

Someone's always leaving

Somebody else is left behind

But that's what plays the jukebox and sells the wine

(Gabe Tucker)

Almost blue

Almost doing things we used to do

There's a girl here and she's almost you

Almost all the things that your eyes once promised

I see in hers too

Now your eyes are red from crying

Almost blue

Flirting with this disaster became me

It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost blue

It's almost touching it will almost do

There's a part of me that's always true...always

Not all good things come to an end now it is only a chosen few

I've seen such an unhappy couple

Almost me

Almost you

Almost blue

They carried my girl to the buryin' ground

They marked the place where she laid down

Today has been a lonesome day

Tomorrow's gonna be the same way

Go dig my grave with a silver spade and

Mark the place where I'll be laid

Did you ever hear a church bell tone?

You'll know by that I'm dead and gone

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Today has been a lonesome day

Tomorrow's gonna be the same way

Will you love me tomorrow? (Dave Mason)

It’s fight for your life, that’s all. Until death do us part, you got it made. (jazz musician Lester

Young)

The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

(Charles Spurgeon)

I have been a rover

I have walked alone

Hiked a hundred highways

Never found a home

Still in all I'm happy

The reason is, you see

Once in a while along the way

Love's been good to me

There was a girl in Denver

Before the summer storm

Oh, her eyes were tender

Oh, her arms were warm

And she could smile away the thunder

Kiss away the rain

Even though she's gone away

You won't hear me complain

I have been a rover








There was a girl in Portland

Before the winter chill

We used to go a-courtin'

Along October hill

And she could laugh away the dark clouds

Cry away the snow

It seems like only yesterday

As down the road I go

I've been a rover



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(by Rod McKuen)

Yesterday's lies and tomorrow's promises

I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I've Got (Duke Ellington)

You're a honky tonk sweetheart and anybody's girl (Billy Gray)

PLEASE SEND ME SOMEONE TO LOVE

Heaven please send to all mankind

Peace on earth and peace of mind

But if it ain't asking too much

Please send me someone to love

Show the world how to get along

Peace will enter when hate is gone


Please send me someone to love

I lay awake at night

With the world in a trouble

And my answer is always the same

That unless man puts an end

To this damnable sin

Hate will put the world in a flame

What a shame

Just because I'm in misery

Don't mean I'm begging for sympathy


Please, please send me someone to love

Isn't it a pity

Now, isn't it a shame

How we break each other's hearts

And cause each other pain

How we take each other's love

Without thinking anymore

Forgetting to give back

Isn't it a pity

(George Harrison)

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Now it begins, now that you're gone

Needles and pins, twilight till dawn

Watching that clock till you return

And lighting that torch and watching it burn

Now it begins, day after day

This is my life ticking away

Waiting to hear footsteps that say:

Love will appear and this time will stay

Each time you go

I try to pretend

It's over at last

This time the big hurt will end

Now it begins, now that you're gone

Needles and pins, twilight till dawn

So if you don't come back again

I wonder when, oh when will it end?

The big hurt

Snow Bird

Beneath its snowy mantle cold and clean

The unmown grass lies waiting for its coat to turn green

The snow bird sings the song he always sings and

Speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spring

When I was young my heart was young and true

Anything it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do

But now I feel such an emptiness within

For the thing I want most in life is the thing that I can't win

Spread your tiny wings and fly away and

Take the snow back with you where it came from on that day

The one I love forever is untrue

And if I could you know that I would fly away with you

The breeze along the river seems to say that

He'll only break my heart again should I decide to stay

So little snow bird take me with you when you go

To that land of gentle breezes where the peaceful waters flow

Spread your tiny wings and fly away and

Take the snow back with you where it came from on that day

The one I love forever is untrue

And if I could you know that I would fly away with you

(Gene Maclellan)

From There Are No Children There by Alex Kotlowitz

The 1988 inventory for the Cook County Criminal Courts included 14 perjuries; 103 briberies;

23 impersonations of officials; 260 indictments for official misconduct; 20 charges of obstruction of justice; 3,647 aggravated and heinous batteries; 8 charged with possession of explosive devices; 993 caught with burglary tools; 162 home repair frauds; 380 home invasions; 1312 charges of unlawful restraint; 830 kidnappings; 84 jail escapes; 8419 rapes;

1584 armed robberies; 1351 accused of unlawful use of a weapon; 10 police officers disarmed;

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73 gambling charges; 5 food stamp frauds; 3101 thefts; 232 attempted burglaries; 6160 burglaries; 81 charged with intimidation; 1219 bailbond violations; 867 forgeries; 388 arsons;

156 charged with deceptive practice; 429 retail thefts; 2568 auto thefts; 3569 incidents of armed violence; 104 reckless homicides; 3 solicitations for murder; 953 attempted murders;

1905 murders; 6 charges of endangering the life of a child; 4 child abandonments; 36 charges of cruelty to children; 1 reckless homicide of an unborn baby; 2 involuntary manslaughters of unborn children; 7 intentional homicides of unborn children; 54 child abductions; 7 solicitations of juveniles; 1 juvenile pimping charge; 174 child pornography charges; 27 charged with taking indecent liberties with children; 14 incest charges; 10,518 drug charges;

24,390 cases and 56,204 charges heard by 32 judges.

The youngsters had heard that

Chicago's suburban-bound commuter trains would shoot at them for trespassing on the tracks. One of the boys, certain that the passengers were crack shots, burst into tears as the train whisked by. For both the commuters and the boys, the unknown was the enemy. One evening Lafeyette, told his mother LaJoe, "Mama, I'm real tired. I could go outside and don't have to come back. Anytime I go outside, I ain't guaranteed to come back." (From There Are

No Children Here, by Alex Kotlowitz)

The prison population consists of the bad, the mad, and the sad. (David Ramsbotham)

I had the feeling as if I had fallen into an ocean of boiling waters, and not knowing how to swim or to get out in another manner, I tried with my legs and arms as best I could. I never gave up. But how could I give up in the middle of an ocean? (Arnold Schoenberg)

Schoenberg (modern composer) became a classic without ever winning the ungrudging public acceptance granted to lesser figures. (Charle Rosen0

Is That All There Is?

I remember when I was a little girl, our house caught on fire

I'll never forget the look on my father's face

As he gathered me up in his arms and raced out the burning building onto the pavement.

And I stood there shivering in my pajamas and watched the whole world go up in flames

And when it was all over, I said to myself

Is that all there is to a fire?Is that all there is?

If that's all there is my friend

Then let's keep dancing, break out the booze, and have a ball

If that's all there is.When I was twelve years old, my daddy took me to the circus, the greatest show on earth

There were clowns and elephants and dancing bears

And a beautiful lady in pink tights flew high above our heads

And as I sat there watching, I had the feeling that something was missing

I didn't know what, but when it was all over, I said to myself

Is that all there is to the circus?Is that all there is?



If that's all there is.And then I fell in love with the most wonderful boy in the world

We'd take long walks down by the river

Or just sit gazing into each others eyes, we were so much in love

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And then one day he went away

And I thought I'd die, but I didn't And when I didn't, I said to myself

Is that all there is to love?Is that all there is?



If that's all there is.I know what you must be saying to yourself

If that's the way she feels about it

Why doesn't she just end it all?

Oh no, not me, I'm not ready for that final disappointment

Because I know that when the final moment comes and I breath my last breath

I'll be saying to myself...Is that all there is?



If that's all there is.

(Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)

If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all

I'm shouting all about love

While they treated you like a dog

When you were the one who had made it so clear

All those years ago.

I'm talking all about how to give

They don't act with much honesty

But you point the way to the truth when you say All you need is love.

Living with good and bad I always look up to you

Now we're left cold and sad

By someone the devil's best friend

Someone who offended all.

We're living in a bad dream

They've forgotten all about mankind

And you were the one they backed up to the wall

All those years ago

You were the one who Imagined it all


Deep in the darkest night I send out a prayer to you

Now in the world of light

Where the spirit free of the lies

And all else that we despised.

They've forgotten all about God

He's the only reason we exist

Yet you were the one that they said was so weird


You said it all though not many had ears


You had control of our smiles and our tears


(George Harrison)

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Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was. (Sandra Dee)

Be sure it's true,

When you say, "I love you,"

It's a sin to tell a lie!

Old Man River

There's an old man called the Mississippi

That's the old man I would like to be

What does he care if the world's got troubles?

What does he care if the land's not free?

He must know something

But he don't say nothing

He just keeps rolling along

He don't plant tators

He don't plant cotton

And them that plants 'em

Is soon forgotten

But Old Man River


You and me we sweat and strain

Body all achin' and racked in pain

I get weary

And sick of trying

I'm tired of living

And scared of dying

But Old Man River


(Oscar Hammerstein II)

Too much too soon

Til Love Comes Again

White light shadows gather around my door

They find me dreaming all alone once more

Memories come around to haunt my sleepless sounds

Now's the time I must be strong

I believe it won't be long

Till love comes again

To end these lonely nights


To drive these tears I cry

It's darkest just before the dawn

And I'll just keep holding on

Till then


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Somewhere someone feels the way I do

And like me they dream of the love that's true

One day I'll look into his eyes I know the moment's right

Until then I'll just wait

No matter how long it might take

(Bog Regan,Ed Hill)

Nickels and dimes, memories and wines

She's on his mind once again

The same old stool, the same old fool

Played by the rules, but didn't win

There's an old love in his heart that he can't lose

He tried forgettin',

But he knows that it's no use

He's got a fool hearted memory

It won't let him see

That she walked out the door


And he sits patiently

Here every night so it can fool him more

He was his girl, his only world,

That string of pearls that slipped away

A thousand dimes, a thousand times

He doesn't mind what they say

He fills the jukebox

And plays the same old song

He fills his glass

And then he turns her memory on

Part-time lover

My memories will soon disappear like tears in the rain. (Blade Runner movie)

You can say the soul is gone

And the feeling is just not there

Not like it was so long ago.

On the empty page before you

You can fill in what you care

Try to make it new before you go.

Take the simple case of the sarge

Who can't go back to war

'Cause the hippies tore down everything that he was fighting for.

Or the lovers on the blankets

That the city turned to whores

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With memories of green kissed by the sun.

You can say the soul is gone

And close another door

Just be sure that yours is not the one.

And I'm singing for the stringman

Who lately lost his wife

There is no dearer friend of mine

That I know in this life.

On his shoulder rests a violin

For his head where chaos reigns

But his heart can't find a simple way

To live with all those things.

All those things

He's a stringman

A stringman

All those strings to pull

(Neil young)

I labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity. (Isaiah)

Oh You Crazy Moon

When they met, the way they smiled

I saw that I was through

Oh, you crazy moon

What did you do

And when they kissed, they tried to say

That it was just in fun


Look what you've done

Once you promised me, you know

That it would never end

You should be ashamed to show

Your funny face my friend

(And) There they are, they fell in love

I guess you think that you're smart


You broke my heart

(Johnny Burke)

I was much further out than you thought, not waving but drowning.

(Stevie Smith)

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Sometimes I think it's a shame

When I'm feeling no pain

Sometimes I think it's like a sin

When I feel I'm winning and I'm losing again

(Gordon Lightfoot)

Starin' at the world through the bottom of a glass,

All I see is a man who's fading fast.

But here I am again, mixin' misery and gin.

Sittin' with all my friends and talkin' to myself.

I look like I'm havin' a good time but any fool can tell,

That this Honkytonk Heaven really makes ya' feel like hell.

(Merle Haggard)

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

(Mark Twain)

Hey house lady

Seems like you hard to hear

Cause if you've got no whiskey

Just bring me a bottle of beer

Hey, house lady

Please M'am don't get mad

I just want another drink of that stuff I just had

Hey house lady

You sure do treat me mean

You treat me just like I is not a human being

Cause I been settin' here playin'

Mama for the whole night long

Old square face, old double chin, what you lookin' at me for?

Ain't gonna lead me to sorrow and sin no more, no sir, no more.

Too many times you got under my skin.

I'm through with you old square face.

Ain't gonna get me again, no sir, no sir.

Old square face, what you keep hangin' around for?

What's that you say?

It's time to begin?

Well, just once more.

Might as well bring those pink elephants in.

Man, I'm feelin' low, old square face.

You know, you got me again, yes sir.

You really got me that time.

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A group of jolly cowboys discussing plans at ease.

Says one, I'll tell you something, boys, if you will listen please.

I'm an old cow puncher, you see me dressed in rags.

Used to be a good one, boys, but I went on great big jags.

I've got a home boys, a good one you all know,

Although I haven't seen it since very long ago.

I'm headed back to Dixie once more to see them all.

Going to see my mother when all the work's done this fall.

When I left home, boys, my mother for me cried.

She begged me not to go, boys, for me she would have died.

Mother's heart is aching, breaking for me that's all.

With God's help I'll see her when the work's done this fall.

That very night this cowboy went out to stand his guard.

Night was dark and cloudy and storming very hard.

Cattle they got frightened and rushed a wild stampede.

Cowboy tried to heard them while riding at full speed.

Riding in the darkness so loudly did he shout

Trying to head them and turn the herd about.

His saddle horse did stumble and on him it did fall.

He'll not see his mother when the work's all done this fall.

Send my mother my wages, boys, the wages I have earned.

I'm so afraid, boys, the last steer I have turned.

Headed for a new range, I hear my Master's call.

I'll not see my mother when the work's all done this fall.

Fred, you take my saddle, George you take my bed.

Bill, you take my pistol after I'm dead.

Please think of me kindly when you look upon them all.

I'll not see my mother when all the work's done this fall.

Charlie was buried at sunrise, no tombstone for his head.

Nothing but a little board, and this is what it said:

Charlie died at daybreak, he died from a fall.

He'll not see his mother when the work's all done this fall.

(D.J. O'Malley)

Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?

Would it be the same if I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong and carry on,

‘Cause I know I don’t belong in heaven.

Would you hold my hand if I saw you in heaven?

Would you help me stand if I saw you in heaven?

I find my way through night and day,

‘Cause I know I just can’t stay here in heaven.

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

I can break your heart, have you begging please.

Beyond the door there’s peace I’m sure,

And I know there’ll be no more tears in heaven.

(Eric Clapton)

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Tear a star from out the sky and the sky feels blue.

Tear a petal from a rose and the rose weeps too.

(Henry Nemo)

I don't wanna play no more.

(Jazz tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins shortly before he died)

Johnny Guitar

Play the guitar

Play it again, my Johnny

Maybe you're cold but you're so warm inside

I'm always a fool for my Johnny

For the one they call Johnny Guitar

Play it again, Johnny Guitar

What if you stay, what if you go, I love you

What is you are cruel, you can be kind I know

There was never a man like my Johnny

The one they call Johnny Guitar

Play it again, Johnny

(Peggy Lee)

She lives her life in honkey tonks and crowded backstreet bars

A world of make believe that knows no sun or moon or stars

Just the glitter of the great white way and the glare of city lights

Where music is loud,

She’s in the crowd

A girl in the night

I wonder if she’s thinking of dreams that didn’t last

I wonder if she’s haunted by heartaches from the past

Perhaps there’s a story of a love that wasn’t right

Now shadows hide her empty pride


She’s sitting there so lonely as she lights a cigarette,

The smoke rings in her eyes

There seems to be regret

Is she there to tempt another in a dress that clings her tight

A glass of wine to pass the time


Now shadows hide her empty pride

A girl in the night (Hank Thompson)

Held in time in a world of tears I slowly drown.

Tragedy, when the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on,

When the morning cries and you don’t know why, it’s hard to bear.

With no one to love you, you’re goin’ nowhere.

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Tragedy, when you lose control and you got no soul, it’s tragedy.

With no one beside you, you’re goin’ nowhere.

Stayin’ alive, life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me. Stayin’ alive.

(The Bee Gees)

N ow, I’m not in your town to stay

Said a lady old and gray

To the warden of the penitentiary

I’m not in town to stay

I’ll soon be on my way

I’m just here to get my baby out of jail

Oh, Lord, I’m just here to get my baby out of jail

I have tried to raise him right

I have prayed both day and night

That he’d never follow the footsteps of his dad

I have searched both far and wide

I have feared that he died

And I’m glad to fine my baby here in jail

Yes, Lord, I’m glad to find my baby here in jail

I will pawn you my watch

I will pawn you my jade

I will pawn you my diamond ring

I will wash all your clothes

I will scrub all your floors

If that will get my baby out of jail

Yes, Lord, you know I want my baby out of jail

Then me hear the warden say

To the lady old and gray

I will bring your baby back to your side

Then the gates went wide apart

She held her darling to her heart

She kissed the baby boy

Then she died

But smiling in the arms of her dear boy

There she died

There is no reason I should have to be so alone

I'm smothered by this emptiness, Lord I wish I was made of stone

Like a fool I lent my soul to love and it paid me back with shame

God help me, am I am only one who's ever felt this way?

(Maria McKee)

One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside. (John Lennon)

Close enough for love.

I got too smart too soon and wise too late. (Roosevelt Sykes)

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What good is a used up world, and how could it be worth having?

(Sting)

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do

I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you

I never dreamed I'd love somebody like you

I don't want to fall in love

No I don't want to fall in love with you

What a wicked game to play

To make me feel this way

What a wicked thing to do

To let me dream of you

What a wicked thing to say

You never felt this way

What a wicked thing to do

To make me dream of you

And I don't want to fall in love

No I don't want to fall in love with you

I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you

(Chris Isaac)

I realized that God has always loved me more than I love myself.

Tryin' to make it real compared to what? I can't use it.

Life is a stern teacher.

He came out of the dark like he was made of it.

(From the movie Mary Reilly)

Tall and tan and young and lovely

The girl from Ipanema goes walking

And when she passes, each one she passes goes aah

When she walks she's like a samba

That swings so cool and sways

Oh, but I watch her so sadly

How can I tell her I love her?

Yes, I would give my heart gladly

But each day when she walks to the seas

She looks straight ahead, not at me

And when she passes I smile

But she doesn't she me

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No, she doesn't see me

(Antonio Carlos Jobim)

Always tryin' to keep from cryin'

I'm low and lonely over you.

(Roy Acuff)

Some dance to remember, some dance to forget. (Hotel California, the Eagles)

Blues in the mornin'

Mis'ry in the evenin'

I'm the saddest man you ever knew.

Got my share of sorrow

Same ol' thing tomorrow

Since you're gone the dawn is always overdue.



Keep me wonderin' what I oughta do.

Almost out of money

Yes, you think that's funny

Even when you know that I'm still in love with you.

Ba-by, when you told me goodbye,

With a smile in your eye.

Oh ba-by I had to laugh

So that I wouldn't cry.

Now there's nothin' but blues in the mornin'

Misr'y in the evenin'

Wake up sobbin' like a child of doom.

Wish I'd never met you, let the devil get you

Then you'll know the heartache of a fool -

Full of mis'ry and the blues.

(Charlie La Vere)

I must be invisible, no one knows me.

I have crawled down deadend streets on my hands and knees.

I was born with a raging thirst, a hunger to be free.

But I’ve learned through the years, don’t encourage me,

‘Cause I’m a lonely stranger here, will be on my day.

I don’t know what’s going on, so I’ll be on my way.

When I walk, stay behind, don’t get close to me,

‘Cause it’s sure to end in tears, so just let me be.

Some will say that I’m no good, maybe I am weak,

Take a look, then walk away, that’s all right with me.

(Eric Clapton)

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Broken hearts in the world can't be mended left unattended.

Alone again, naturally. (Gilbert O'Sullivan)

I got one year of school left to go

Got my hometown wired and wheels of my own

What do I want to be?

I ain't got a clue

I got too many problems I can't share with you

And I'm still looking for a love to serve

Hey, I'm a walking nerve

I call girls regular, can't call them friends

The pressure to succeed never ends

I dream of peace that will never exist

I say no to drugs and drink like a fish

I'm scared to grow up, but I can't stop

God forbid I wind up on top

Probably blow all my money tryin' to be well thought of

'Cause I'm too sick to believe in self love

Don't know who I am or what I deserve

Yeah, I'm a walking nerve

I'm a walking nerve.

(Nils Lofgren)

She lives alone with no one who can see she's unhappy.

She knows what she lost, still she is waiting for more.

She could be living in hell and not know someone loves her.

What can she do, what is she waiting for?

The day turns to night, he just can't find the right words to tell her,

Twisting and turning and looking for something to say.

If you would let me hold you, I wouldn't walk away.

That's what he wants, that's what he wants to say.

What can she lose, what is she waiting for?

He knows when she cries

And he saw through the lies that she told him.

She's dreaming and planning of how she could ask him to stay.

If you would let me love you, I wouldn't be the same.

Please could we try,

Please could we try again?

(Marianne Faithfull)

Gone is the romance that was so divine

'Tis broken and cannot be mended

You must go your way and I must go mine

But now that our love dreams have ended

What'll I do when you are far away

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And I am blue, what'll I do?

What'll I do when I am wondering who

Is kissing you, what'll I do?

What'll I do with just a photograph

To tell my troubles to?

When I'm alone with only dreams of you

That won't come true

What'll I do?

Do you remember a night filled with bliss?

The moonlight was softly descending

Your lips and my lips were tied with a kiss

A kiss with an unhappy ending...

(Irving Berlin)

Mariah.....Mariah....

They call the wind Mariah

Way out here

They got a name for rain and wind and fire the rain is rest the fire is joy and they call the wind Mariah

Mariah throws the stars around and send the clouds a-flying

Mariah makes the mountains sound like folks were up their dying

Mariah.....Mariah...


Before I know Mariah's name and heard her wail and whining

I had a girl and she had me the sun was always shinning

But then one day

I left my girl

I left her behind me and now I'm lost

Oh God I'm lost not even God can find me

Mariah...Mariah...


Out here they got a name for rain for wind and fire only

But when your lost and all alone there is no name for gloomy

And I'm a lost and lonely man without a star to guide me

Mariah blow my love to me

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I need my girl besides me

Mariah...Mariah...


Mariah....Mariah....

Blow my love to me......

Last night when we were young

Love was a star, a song unsung

Life was so new, so real so right

Ages ago last night

Today the world is old

You flew away and time grew cold

Where is that star that shone so bright

Ages ago last night?

To think that spring had depended

On merely this: a look, a kiss

To think that something so splendid

Could slip away in one little daybreak

So now, let's reminisce

And recollect the sighs and the kisses

The arms that clung

When we were young last night

(Harold Arlen)

Out of the darkness you suddenly appeared

You smiled and I was taken by surprise

I guess I should have seen right through you

But the moon got in my eyes.

I was so thrilled by the love you volunteered,

I gave my heart without a compromise

I guess you don't remember, do you?

When the moon got in my eyes

I thought a kingdom was in sight

That I would have the right to claim

But with the morning's early light

I didn't have a dream to my name

You know the saying that all who love are blind;

It seems that ancient adage still applies.

I guess I should have seen right through you,

But the moon got in my eyes

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I'm the saddest man you ever knew.

Got my share of sorrow

Same ol' thing tomorrow

Since you're gone the dawn is always overdue.



Keep me wonderin' what I oughta do.

Almost out of money

Yes, you think that's funny

Even when you know that I'm still in love with you.

Ba-by, when you told me goodbye,

With a smile in your eye.

Oh ba-by I had to laugh

So that I wouldn't cry.

Now there's nothin' but blues in the mornin'

Misr'y in the evenin'

Wake up sobbin' like a child of doom.

Wish I'd never met you, let the devil get you

Then you'll know the heartache of a fool -

Full of mis'ry and the blues.

("Misery and The Blues" by Charlie La Vere)

When day is done and shadows fall

I dream of you!

When day is done

I think of all the joys we knew!

That yearning, returning, to hold you in my arms, won't go love, I know love, without you, night has lost it's charms!

When day is done and grass is wet with twilight's dew, my lonely heart is sinking with the sun!

Although I miss your tender kiss the whole day through,

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I miss you most of all when day is done!

I’m the mountaineer blowing free

Thinking about the days that used to be

I’m the mountaineer standing all alone

Wondering where the years had all blown

As I look at the valleys down below

They were green just as far as I could see

As my memory turned over how my heart did yearn for you and the days that used to be

Oh I wonder if you ever think of me

Or has time blotted your memory

As I listen to the breeze whisper gently through the trees

I’ll always cherish what you meant to me

Gone is the romance that was so divine.

'tis broken and cannot be mended.

You must go your way,

And I must go mine.

But now that our love dreams have ended

What'll I do

When you are far away

And I am blue

What'll I do?

What'll I do?

When I am wond'ring who

Is kissing you

What'll I do?



When I'm alone

With only dreams of you


What'll I do?



When I'm alone

With only dreams of you


What'll I do?

(Irving Berlin)

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It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Smiling faces I can see

But not for me

I sit and watch

As tears go by

My riches can't buy everything

I want to hear the children sing

All I hear is the sound

Of rain falling on the ground

I sit and watch

As tears go by

It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Doin things I used to do

They think are new

I sit and watch

As tears go by

(Jagger/Richards)

Wish I was down in Florida Florida on the hog

Stead of way up in old Georgia boys treated like a dog

Whiskey deaf and whiskey blind

Seaboard train a rollin down that iron seaboard line

Catch 'er for Dunnellon gonna ease my worried mind


Way down on the corner see the big parade go by

Wish I's in the brass band marchin to the sky


All around this country what you think I see

Whiskey dope and women boys done made a wreck of me


I cannot stand the government I cannot stand the law

I cannot stand these dark days comin' on us all


Way down at the railroad just walking on the ties

If Buella lands in Florida boys I'll never say goodbye


If I die a roamin in some distant land you can take me to the graveyard down in alabam'


You can take my banjo and hang it by the door

Way down in sunny dixie well I won't need it no more


It's fare ye well darlin way on down the line

Fare ye well forever and the songs of Auld Lang Syne


(Norman Blake)

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She may be weary

Women do get weary

Wearing the same shabby dress

And when she's weary

Try a little tenderness

She may be waiting

Just anticipating

Things she may never possess

And while she's without them

Try a little tenderness

It's not just sentimental

She has her grief

And her cares

But a word

Soft and gentle

Makes it easier to bear

So much easier to bear

You won't regret it

Women don't forget it

Love's got a whole

A whole happiness

And it's all so easy

Just to try a little tenderness

You've gotta try

You've gotta hold 'er

You've got ta squeeze her

You have to try

You've got ta try

And always please her

You won't regret it

Try a little tender-ness

(Michael Buble)

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Softly as in a morning sunrise

The light of love comes stealing

Into a newborn day

Flaming with all the glow of sunrise

A burning kiss is sealing

A vow that all betray

For the passions that thrill love

And take you high to heaven

Are the passions that kill love

And let it fall to hell

So ends the story


The light that gave you glory

Will take it all away


When you just give love

And never get love

You'd better let love depart

I know it's so, and yet I know

I can't get you out of my heart

You made me leave my happy home

You took my love and now you're gone

Since I fell for you

Love brings such misery and pain

I guess I'll never be the same


Well, it's too bad

And it's too sad

But I'm in love with you

You love me, then you snub me

But what can I do?

I'm so in love with you

I guess I'll never see the light

I get the blues most every night


Since I fell for you.

(Buddy Johnson)

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I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair

Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air

I see her tripping where the bright streams play

Happy as the daisies that dance on her way

Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour

Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er

Oh! I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair

Floating, like a vapor, on the soft, summer air

I long for Jeannie with the day dawn smile

Radiant in gladness, warm with winning guile

I hear her melodies, like joys gone by

Sighing round my heart o'er the fond hopes that die

Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain

Wailing for the lost one that comes not again

Oh! I long for Jeannie, and my heart bows low

Never more to find her where the bright waters flow

I sigh for Jeannie, but her light form strayed

Far from the fond hearts round her native glade

Her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown

Flitting like the dreams that have cheered us and gone

Now the nodding wild flow'rs may wither on the shore

While her gentle fingers will cull them no more

Oh! I sigh for Jeannie with the light brown hair

Floating like a vapor, on the soft summer air

(Stephen Foster)

Just friends

Lovers no more

Just friends

But not like before

To think of what we've been

And not to kiss again

Seems like pretending

It isn't the ending

Two friends

Drifting apart

Two friends

But one broken heart

We loved we laughed we cried

Then suddenly love died

The story ends

And we're

Just friends

(John Klenner, Sam Lewis)

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Love me or leave me and let me be lonely

You won't believe me that I love you only

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else

You might find the night time the right time for kissing

But night time is my time for just reminiscing

Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody else

There'll be no else unless that someone is you, you, you

I intend to be independently blue

I want your love but I don't want to borrow

I have it today and give back tomorrow

For my love is your love but there's no love for nobody else

(Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson)

I’m so in love with you, please love me

Whatever else you do, just love me

Go your way and dance and play ‘till dawn breaks through

If you’ll just call up and say I love you, just you

You’re all I desire, love me

I’d die if you should tire of me, love me

I’ll be kind and I won’t mind if you’re not near

If you’ll only love me dear

(Ned Washington and Victor Young)

Nickels and dimes

Memories and wines

She's on his mind once again

The same old fool

The same old stool

Played by the rules but didn't win

There's an old love in his heart that he can't lose

He tried forgetting but he knows that it's no use


That won't let him see



He sits patiently


She was his girl

His only world

That string of pearls that slipped away

A thousand dimes

A thousand times

He doesn't mind what they say

He fills the jukebox

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And plays the same old song

He fills his glass

And then he turns her memory on


That won't let him see



He sits patiently


Never let me go

Love me much too much

If you let me go

Life would lose its touch

What would I be without you?

There's no place for me without you

Never let me go

I'd be so lost if you went away

There'd be a thousand hours in the day

Without you I know

Because of one caress my world was overturned

At the very start, all my bridges burned

By my flaming heart you'd never leave me, would you?

You couldn't hurt me, could you?

Never let me go

I'd be so lost if you went away

There'd be a thousand hours in the day

Without you I know

Another time, another place

Her candles flicker in the fading light

I sit alone and watch that lonely night

I see you everywhere and I try desperately to hide

Another time, another place, I see that old familiar face

And I try hard to catch your eye

Another road, another mile, I see that old familiar smile

But you'll be with somebody new

Another night, another day, I'll see you standing in my way

I'll stop and say "hello, my friend"

Another place, another time, you'll tell me you've been doing fine

And walk away from me once more.

I try to run away from sad regrets

The bitter wine won't help me to forget

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That I locked up my heart and threw away the precious key

Another time, another place, I see that old familiar face

And I try hard to catch your eye

Another road, another mile, I see that old familiar smile

But you'll be with somebody new

Another night, another day, I'll see you standing in my way

I'll stop and say "hello, my friend"

Another place, another time, you'll tell me you've been doing fine

And walk away from me once more.

(Englebert Humperdinck)

There was a moon out in space

But a cloud drifted over its face

You kissed me and went on your way

The night we called it a day

I heard the song of the spheres

Like a minor lament in my ears

I hadn't the heart left to pray


Soft through the dark

The hoot of an owl in the sky

Sad though his song

No bluer was he than I

The moon went down stars were gone

But the sun didn't rise with the dawn

There wasn't a thing left to say


There wasn't a thing left to say

He’s Gone Away

He’s gone away for to stay a little while;

But he’s comin’ back if he goes ten thousand miles.

Oh who will tie my shoe and who will glove by hand,

And who will kiss my ruby lips when his is gone?

Look away over Yandro.

He’s gone away for to stay a little while;

B ut he’s comin’ back if he goes ten thousand miles.

Oh it’s Papa will tie my shoe, and it’s Mama will glove my hand.

And it’s you will kiss my ruby lips when you return.

Look away over Yandro.

(American Civil War folk song)

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The Gentleman’s a Dope

The gentleman is a dope a man of many faults.

A clumsy Joe who wouldn't know a Rhumba from a Waltz.

The gentleman is a dope and not my cup of tea

Why do I get in a dither?

He doesn't belong to me!

The gentleman isn't bright

He doesn't know the score

A cake will come, he'll take a crumb

And never ask for more.

The gentleman's eyes are blue

But little do they see

Why am I beating my brains out?

He doesn't belong to me!

He's somebody else's problem,

She's welcome to the guy!

She'll never understand him half as well as I

The gentleman is a dope

He isn't very smart

He's just a lug you like to hug

And hold against your heart,

The gentleman is a dope doesn't know

How happy he could be.

Look at me!

Crying my eyes out,

As if he belonged to me.

He'll never belong to me.

(Richard Rodgers)

In the night, though we're apart

There's a ghost of you within my haunted heart

Ghost of you, my lost romance

Lips that laugh, eyes that danceHaunted heart won't let me be

Dreams repeat a sweet but lonely song to me

Dreams are dust, it's you who must belong to me

And thrill my haunted heart, be still, my haunted heart

THE SOUL CAGES (Sting)

Billy was born within sight of the shipyard, first son of a riveter's son.

And Billy was raised as the ship grew a shadow, her great hull would blot out the light of the sun.

And six days a week he would watch his poor father, a working man live like a slave.

He'd drink every night and he'd dream of a future, of money he never would save.

And Billy would cry when he thought of the future.

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One day he dreamed of a ship on the sea

That would carry his father and he

To a place they would never be found

Far away from this town.

A Newcastle ship without coals

They would sail to the island of souls.

Soon came a day when the bottle was broken, they launched a great ship out to sea.

He felt he'd been left on a desolate shore to a future he desperately wanted to flee.

The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard; there's a bloodless moon where the oceans die.

A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets and in the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie.

Trapped in the cage of the skeleton ship all the workmen suspended like flies,

Caught in the flare of acetylene light, a working man works till the industry dies.

These are the soul cages.

And Billy would cry when he thought of the future.

Then what they call an industrial accident crushed those it couldn't forgive.

They brought Billy's father back home in an ambulance, a brass watch, a check, maybe three weeks to live.

And what else was there for a riveter's son but a new ship to be built, new work to be done.

Two priests came round our house tonight, one young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying, to serve the final rite.

One to learn, one to teach which way the cold wind blows,

Fussing and flapping in priestly black like a murder of crows.

And all this time, the river flowed endlessly to the sea.

If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river

And I'd bury the old man, I'd bury him at sea.

That night, he dreamed of a ship on the sea


To a place they could never be found

Far away from this town,



Why should I?

Why should I cry for you?

Sometimes I see your face, the stars seem to lose their place.

Why must I think of you?

Why must I?

Why should I?

Why should I cry for you?

Why would you want me to?

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And what would it mean to say that, "I loved you in my fashion"?

What would be true? Why should I? Why should I cry for you?

I saw it again this evening,

Black sail in a pale yellow sky, gone where the gray gulls fly.

That night as I walked in my slumber I waded into the sea strand

And I swam with the moon and her lover until I lost sight of the land.

The gentle sigh turned to a howling and the gray sky, she angered to black.

And my anxious eyes searched the horizon with the gathering sea at my back.

Did I see the shade of a sailor on the bridge through the wheel house pane,

Held fast to the wheel of the rocking ship as I squinted my eyes in the rain?

For the ship had turned into the wind against the storm to brace.

And underneath the sailor's hat I saw my father's face.

If a prayer today is spoken, please offer it for me,

When the bridge to heaven is broken and you're lost on the wild wild sea,

Lost on the wild wild sea....

He dreamed of a ship on the sea


To a place they could never be found

Far away from this town



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