Graniteville
by Doug Burr (
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Just a boxcar flower used to follow your daddy
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another fader-in from Cincinatti
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You were always watching, watching the trains roll by
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Yeah, you know I love you, everything you carry
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Another redeye, Mobile, Albany
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You were always watching, watching the train roll by
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So, tell me, what's going on in Graniteville
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Catch a whole town underneath a sleeping pill
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It's a quiet little city that grew up together
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with your picture looking out your grandmother's window
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There's a black train rolling through the middle of the night
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Finds us here, well there's nowhere to hide
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If we ever wake up in Graniteville
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Oh, you know how much I love you and I always will
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Trying so hard just to get away
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some people want to die in a quiet place
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where everybody's always watching, watching the trains roll by
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Yeah, you have a place to go when it's never enough
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Little hard to pay the toll, train's in a rush
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out of town, it's always leaving, waving the girl goodbye, goodbye
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Yeah, but every town is small when it comes to you
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Just like everyone's asleep when it's passing through
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All night I heard the scream of a million tongues
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So wake up, pretty baby, turn the light on
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tonight there's something different, something gone wrong
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We've been sleeping too long, so long
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So, tell me, what's going on in Graniteville
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Catch a whole town underneath a sleeping pill
A#m
It's a quiet little city that grew up together
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with your picture looking out your grandmother's window
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There's a black train rolling through the middle of the night
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Finds us here, well there's nowhere to hide
A#m
If we ever wake up in Graniteville
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Oh, you know how much I love you and I always will
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Wake up, baby, there's a train a'comin'
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Don't you leave me or forsake me
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Wake up, baby, there's a train a'comin'
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Don't you know how much I love you?
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Wake up, baby, and hear the screeching
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whole town drifting off to dreamin'
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Wake up, baby, there's a train a'comin'
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Winter's leaving, Spring has sprung in
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Wake up, baby, hear the screaming
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Whole town dies while it's still sleeping
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Wake up, baby, there's a train a'comin'
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Don't forget, you know I love you.