| Now Stackerlee, Lord, and Billy Lyon
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| They were gamblin' early one day
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| Stackerlee losin' money
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| And he throwed the cards away
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| Now Stackerlee, he told Billy Lyon
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| «Billy, I’m sho' gonna take yo' life»
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| Now Stackerlee, Lord, and Billy Lyon
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| They were gamblin' early one day
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| Knowledge of the infinite
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| Even if you got it just a little bit
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| Soon as you feel the ground start shaking
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| All your doubts and fears start waking
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| Baby cries through the concrete
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| Genocide, lost the breath of life under Gods feet
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| Genocide of the angels
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| Even murdered instruments, trumpets, banjos
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| But I still hear singing
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| Mixed between the crying
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| Sirens ringing
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| Buried my whole tribe
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| I’m crying, thinking
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| Rescue us from Zion
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| God ain’t blinking
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| Bodies, how they pile on
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| Clock ain’t ticking
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| On face had a smile on
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| Plot just thickened
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| Courage of a lion, nine-life kitten
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| Wandering through iron bars, once prison
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| Now Stackerlee, Lord, and Billy Lyon
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| They were gamblin' early one day
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| Stackerlee losin' money
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| And he throwed the cards away
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| Now Stackerlee, he told Billy Lyon
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| «Billy, I’m sho' gonna take yo' life»
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| Now Stackerlee, Lord, and Billy Lyon
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| They were gamblin' early one day
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| Ils comprennent rien les soumis, les idiots, les vulgaires
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| A la tristesse de l’Eden, aux clartés de l’Enfer
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| Il faut goûter son sang car le sang est esprit
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| On suicide un silence en accouchant d’un cri
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| J’habite un désastre sous la colère des Dieux
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| Où le monde doit s'éteindre pour qu’on ouvre les yeux
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| Et le vin à la bouche, et le coeur sous le pieu
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| On fera voeu de renaître de quelques cendres de feu
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| J’effeuille les corolles de ce qu’on veut de la vie
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| Un peu de vent sur la peau, les caresses d’une fille
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| S’envolaient tout là haut pour gratter l'équinoxe
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| Etre un arbre écrivain en s'écorchant l'écorce
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| Mais tout ça s’est cassé en un éclair, coincé
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| Sous une chape de béton armé
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| Mes enfants, le solstice c’est dans longtemps
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| Mais longtemps c’est maintenant
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| Now Stackerlee, Lord, and Billy Lyon
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| They were gamblin' early one day
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| Stackerlee losin' money
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| And he throwed the cards away
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| Now Stackerlee, he told Billy Lyon
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| «Billy, I’m sho' gonna take yo' life»
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| Now Stackerlee, Lord, and Billy Lyon
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| They were gamblin' early one day |