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Engineer says there's a body on the tracks
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Draped in greens and raging rain and want
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The color gray was creeping in like bones, like timeless days
[Verse 2]
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Phrases left his body and his memories on those tracks
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Calmed his mind and left his flesh and bones
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For where are the things?
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The shallow digs now he calls The Swamp his home
[Verse 3]
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Baby told the navy to go bring him back
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Said the eyes have gone and made him leave
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She cause a simple plee:
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Make them pay and make them bring my baby back to me
[Verse 4]
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Oh engineer says there's a body on the tracks
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Dancing slow and looking left for dead
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Phrases dreams of simple things
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And the fall of men