Intro
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[Verse 1]
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White pine, the moon is so high
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You see where you're going with your eyes closed
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Wild-eyed, growl and smoke
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Return every question in the same tone
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There's a state line, out in those pines, buried in frozen ground, we've chosen our sides,
Now we can't turn it around
[Chorus]
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Chain Emily to the stake
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Her family's worried, she's terribly late
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D# haze rolling across the lake
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If we go, who's to know, dead by morning if we stay
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[Verse 2]
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D# burnt tongue, the paper unfolds
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slipping it through another keyhole
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Slim hope of fireproof rope
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Kerosene off of your sweet nose
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It's a steak knife into my thigh, watching you flicker in real time, call your own kind
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now we can't turn it around
[Chorus]
C A#
Fates, give a warm soul a break
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Just give me a life where you're nothing but mine, and that's how it will stay
C A#
But hey, I've never been so afraid
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With this cold in my bones, and a child engulfed in flame
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[Outro]
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