2:01:02
Running across fields,
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running down river beds,
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always running.
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And always,
just as she was about to get away,
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he'd be there.
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He would stop her somehow.
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He would just appeare and stop her.
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And when she told him these dreams,
he believed them.
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He knew she had to be stopped,
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or she'd leave him forever.
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So he tied a cowbell to her ankle,
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so he could hear it at night
if she tried to get out bed.
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But she learned how to muffle
the bell by stucking a sock into it
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and inched her away out bed
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and into the night.
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He caught her one night,
when the sock fell out
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and he heard her trying to
run out to the highway.
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He caught her, dragged her back to the trailer and tied her to the stove
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with his belt.
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He just left her there,
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he went back to bed
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and lay there and listening to her scream.
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And he listened to his son scream.
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He was surprised at himself because
he didn't feel anything anymore.
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All he wanted to do was sleep.
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And for the first time,
he wished he were far away.
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Lost in a deep, vast country
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where nobody knew him.
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Somewhere without language
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or streets.
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And he dreamed about this place
without knowing its name.
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And when he woke up,
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he was on fire.
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There were blue flames
burning the sheets of his bed.
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He ran through the flames
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towards the only two people he loved.
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But they were gone.