| The moon wanted more of my night
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| I turned off the engine and the headlights
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| The trees appeared as they’d never been gone
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| I promised the fields I’d return from now on
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| And the moon kept on rising
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| I had no more to say
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| I put my roadmaps away
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| And surrendered the day
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| And I know you’ll be calling me soon
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| And if I don’t answer I’m calling the moon
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| Calling the moon
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| I was calling her then
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| I’m wondering will she take me again
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| Oh, I am calling the moon
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| When I called the moon back to me
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| I thought she wanted my beauty
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| I shone in the best that vanity buys
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| I covered the path where my life turned to lies
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| And the moon kept on rising
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| But I felt nothing at all
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| She comes when the empire falls
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| And shines on crumbling walls
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| Calling the moon
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| By the name that she chose
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| As Tennessee wandered in moth-eaten robes
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| Oh, I am calling the moon
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| Calling the moon
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| Oh I’m calling the moon
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| Oh, make sense of me, night
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| I can see so much from this cold height
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| The moon said oh darkness my work is done
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| I’ve poured this bottle of light from the sun
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| But their anger keeps on rising
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| And they don’t understand
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| I’ve shown them all that I can
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| That the world is at hand
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| And I know they’ll be calling me soon
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| And if I don’t answer I’m only the moon
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| I can see by her light
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| This one’s going out to the moon tonight
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| Oh, I am calling the moon
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| Calling the moon
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| Cause I know what it’s worth
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| To tug at the seas and illumine the earth
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| Oh, I am calling the moon
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| Oh, I am calling the moon |