The Mountain Goats – Pale Green Things (Guitar)

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  Got up before dawn

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  Went down to the racetrack

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   Riding with the windows down

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   Shortly after your first heart attack

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   You parked behind the paddock

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   Cracking asphalt underfoot

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   Coming up through the cracks

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Pale green things, pale green things

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   You watched the horses run their workouts

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   You held your stopwatch in your left hand

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   And a Racing Form beneath your arm

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   Casting your gaze way out to no man's land

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   Sometimes I'll meet you out there

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   Lonely and frightened

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   Flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves

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Pale green things, pale green things

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   My sister called at 3 AM

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   Just last December

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   She told me how you'd died at last, at last

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   That morning at the racetrack was one thing that I remembered

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   I turned it over in my mind

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   Like a living Chinese finger trap

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   Seaweed in Indiana sawgrass

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Pale green things, pale green things