Kunci: A minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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He was born in Miller's mansion
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when the mistress was asleep
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The secret son of the cham
They sent him into hidin' for
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his schoolin' and his keep
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With the Carlysles and the
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other lucky bastards
Verse 2
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Now his toady tutors fawn and praise
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the man that he's become
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Though he's taken to the
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laudenum and faro
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He walks the streets like velvet death with his
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daddy's money on his breath
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And a shame he cannot shake
Verse 3
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When day fades to black you
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must not listen to the killer
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Pretty voices keep you beautiful
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and bound
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sorry fact of your existence, Preston Miller
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Is enough to bring this house of evil down
Verse 4
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One night upon some drunken dare
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he writes his absent sire
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Sayin', "Father I would fain
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come home to meet thee"
And though his worthless friends
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guffaw this sudden show of fire
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Another round of bourbon
and it's easy
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Verse 5
And this letter finds his father
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in his tower far away
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And the hoary claw that holds
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Is it grief over a life misspent,
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or love or greed or mere contempt
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Or something darker stirring
in his temples?
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Verse 6
When day fades to black you
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must not listen to the killer
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Pretty voices keep you beautiful
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sorry fact of your existence, Preston Miller
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Is enough to bring this house of evil down, down,
Interlude 1
down
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Verse 7
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he's wakened by a knockin' at his door
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And he drags himself half- wasted
It's a message in his father's quill sayin',
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"Meet me scion, if you will
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At the very stroke of midnight
in the meadow"
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Verse 8
Now he has combed his laggard locks
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and hired a comely roan
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And he's met his comrade fops
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And he's bidden each a grand goodbye
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and he's cantered off alone
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To meet his aged father
Verse 9
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When day fades to black you
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must not listen to the killer
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beautiful and bound
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'Cause it's simple, sorry fact of your existence,
Preston Miller
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Is enough to bring this house of evil down, down,
Interlude 2
down
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Verse 10
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"Oh father dear come out,
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come out, I honor thee tonight"
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He shouts as he goes weavin'
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in the saddle
He sees the stars go blinkin' by like
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the twinkle in a trollop's eye
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And six riders riding madly
Interlude 3
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Verse 11
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This mornin' sailed a ship
of fools across a sea of gin
With a blind and grinning
reaper at the tiller
And it drove an aging Jacob
to his lone and bitter end
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And a bullet through the brain
Outro 1
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