Wellspring

Intro:
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Danny's father was drinker 
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He couldn't quit to save his life 
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Or that of his son, or his daughter, or his beautiful life 
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He left one night after he murdered his bestfriend with a knife 
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He snuck away into the dark and didn't stop to say goodbye 


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He rode 12 days to the border 
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Where the caliber of a man 
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Is measured by the caliber of pistol in his hand 
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He lasted a week before the others 
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Saw he was a man from whom to take 
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And on a Saturday night he was shot after a card game 
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In a drunken bloody stupor 
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He climbed on his horse and headed North 
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He went crying through the night trying to get back home 
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And at dawn he was not dead, but he was dying of thirst 
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And his horse found a well in the middle of the desert 


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He slumped off to get a drink 
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Slipped and cracked his head on the edge 
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And Danny's father fell and sank into the darkness 
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And at that very hour, Danny woke to the screams 
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Of his sister, and his mother, and a band of Apaches 
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Danny's mother grabbed the shotgun and opened the front door 
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Found a hatchet in her chest before she could do anything more 
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And his sister was pulled from the house and then went silent 
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Danny knew there was nothing left to do but make a run for it 


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He rode hard without stopping, 3 days and nights away from hell 
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He passed out on his horse and it led him to a well 
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And he woke, baking in the sun, and could not believe his eyes 
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He drew up bucket after bucket and drank water through the night 
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He drew up bucket after bucket and drank water through the night 


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His belly full, and somehow hot, he began to feel the rot 
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Work its way through his veins and into the depths of his brain 
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And his horse began to stammer and kick with a craze 
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Danny knew then that the water in the well was unsafe 
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Danny knew then that the water in the well was unsafe 


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As he laid dying with his horse, he somehow came to understand 
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It was the death of his father where his own death began 
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And no man can escape the sins his father makes 
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He is bound in blood to what he does and all that he takes 
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And no man can escape the sins his father makes 
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He is bound in blood to what he does and all that he takes 
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He is bound in blood to what he does and all that he takes