Mountain Goats - Color In You Cheeks

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she came in on the redeye to dallas – fort

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worth . all the way from sunny taipei .

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skin the color of a walnut shell , and A

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baseball cap holding down her black hair . and she came

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here after midnight .

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the hot weather made her feel right at home . come on

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in , we haven’t slept for weeks . drink some of

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this . it’ll put color in your cheeks .

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he drove from in from mexicali , no worse for wear .

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money to burn , time to kill . but

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five minutes looking in his eyes and we all

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knew he was broken pretty bad , so we gave him what we

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had . we cleared a space for him to sleep in , and we let the

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silence that’s our trademark make its presence felt . come on

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in , we haven’t slept for weeks . drink some of

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this . it’ll put color in your cheeks .

bridge :
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they came in by the dozens , walking or crawling .

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some were bright – eyed . some were dead on their feet .

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and they came in from zimbabwe , or from soviet ,

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georgia . east saint louis , or from paris , or they lived across the street .

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but they came , and when they’d finally made it here , it was the

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least that we could do to make our welcome clear . come on

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in , we haven’t slept for weeks . drink some of

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this . it’ll put color in your cheeks .