Old sea captain warned us today
When the lord surely looked the other way
Something in the stream outside of town
Reached up and dragged my poor child down

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Has the devil caused this hellish heat
To lure our children down to the creek
Eleven miles from the nearest waves
What manner of beast has swam in from the bay

Young man dive in with hopes to free
My boy's body from the jaws of the thing
At the deepest part of the swimming hole
Refuses to give back the life it stole

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Bring your guns and dynamite
The monster in the creek dies tonight
Fire at whatever moves within the muddy waters of Matawan
Life fuses tossed deep
We'll blow the demon right out of the stream

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Our bow cannot be seen
From where we stand on the stern fog has taken everything
The men's faces show their concern
The cold is worse that we feared
I despair the end of my years

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The more it stings the more I try
Keep waking up each time I die a little death I cry
A thousand leagues a million miles
The secrets buried in the vault beneath the oceans wide

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This beacon's light has burned for as long as I've known
Though tonight the horn must bring us in
For the tower ceases to glow dare we raise our anchor
Let the tide have its way
When waves crash on shores unseen jagged reefs calling our names

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As truth's war still plummets
I'm sick to my stomach for my rose I would leave
My barren lonely star
Sketch me a picture
Use only your mind
My imagination will make it turn out just right

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I would give everything
Gathered from worlds afar
Sift through realities
Figure it out
One world to another
Search the heart of man
To die in the dreamland and never walk free again

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The fact that you are alone
So full of infertile grounds weak and oblivious
Speaking without a sound
The boy's soul plummets
I'm sick to my stomach
For my rose I would heal any scare
Unlike me her wound stay open and bleed
Left no choice head to the woods and flee

This wagon has lost its wheels
Now dig in with your heels and carry your own weight
With the snow up to our knees
All I can think is how you'll be

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First to be eaten
You will you will
With the shit this deep you'll have to leave all the things behind that you don't need
You have fallen behind me
There is nothing left to eat

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These castle walls are finished at last
Will they hold out the elements or just the past
Bury it all out in the yard
Down by the pond and the old livestock

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Exactly where I wasn't shown
The site of his ashes now buried in snow
Now take this flock far into town
They have eaten our fields down close to the ground
With the master dead and planted deep
Who can possibly care for these tired sheep

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I can't reap what you've grown
I can't plow these fields alone
I can't bring the harvest home by myself and myself alone
These castle walls are finished at last
Will they hold out the elements or just the past
And bury it all out in the yard
Down by the pond and the old livestock

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