The Avett Brothers – The Ballad Of Love And Hate (Guitar Live)

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Love writes a letter and sends it to hate.

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My vacations ending. I'm coming home late.

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The weather was fine and the ocean was great

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and I can't wait to see you again.

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Hate reads the letter and throws it away.

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"No one here cares if you go or you stay.

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I barely even noticed that you were away.

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I'll see you or I won't, whatever."

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Love sings a song as she sails through the sky.

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The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes.

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and everyone knows it whenever she flies,

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and also when she comes down.

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Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street.

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Every stranger and drifter he greets.

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and shakes hands with every loner he meets

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with a serious look on his face.

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Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow.

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Carrying with her the good things we know.

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a reason to live and a reason to grow.

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To trust. To hope. To care.

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Hate sits alone on the hood of his car.

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Without much regard to the moon or the stars.

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Lazily killing the last of a jar

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of the strongest stuff you can drink.

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Love takes a taxi, a young man drives.

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as soon as he sees her, hope fills his eyes.

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But tears follow after, at the end of the ride,

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cause he might never see her again.

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Hate gets home lucky to still be alive.

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He screams o'er the sidewalk and into the drive.

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The clock in the kitchen says 2:55,

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Fnd the clock in the kitchen is slow.

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Love has been waiting, patient and kind.

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Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign,

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That the one that she cares for, who's out of his mind,

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Will make it back safe to her arms.

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Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door.

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Weary head hung, eyes to the floor.

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He says "Love, I'm sorry", and she says, "What for?

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I'm yours and that's it, Whatever.

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I should not have been gone for so long.

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I'm your's and that's it, forever."

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You're mine and that's it, forever.