Five Candles

 
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She is going to   Northern  California 
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  To spend a little time up on the hill 

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Five candles light my windowsill tonight 
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      And four shadows cast in flicker in the light 
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      Like windy mounts in the storm that never seem the same to me 
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 We run away tonight chasing things we could not see 
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      And morning birds are singing sad songs in the afternoon 
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      It's all too often that the morning light finds us way too soon 
 

 
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       Like I don't know it 
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I don't even wanna know why 
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 We stay out all night to find a better sunrise 
 

 
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     Now she is going to  Northern  California 
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  They spend a little time up on the hill 
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And       I wonder where the hell has she gone 
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And   I wonder if she thinks of me still 

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The river sings and the pines they softly moan 
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The   river winds and the pines are rooted to their home 
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      And how can  I follow when your tracks don't lead me to you 
 

 
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 Guess I'm more like a pirate rooted to home 
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      I see the freight train loaded with fireflies 
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     We're like a freight train rolling down this mountainside 
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And     what was it I mistook for fire in your eyes 
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 Guess I'm more on the train she's more bound to fly 
 

 
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    Now she's going to  Northern  California 
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  To spend a little time up on the hill 
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And I       wonder where the hell has she gone 
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  And  I wonder if she thinks of me still 

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She going to church on Sunday with her family 
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Nancy's barefoot and twirls around at night 
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  And when she wonders she can't be good to me 
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  Never come back and walk by my side 
 

 
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She is going to  Northern  California 
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  To spend a little time up on the hill 
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     She's going into  Northern  California 
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  To spend a little time up on the hill 
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And     I wonder where the hell has she gone 
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And  I wonder if she thinks of me still