Strawberry Wine

	  		
Intro: 


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Last night the street collapsed on itself 
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In fact it broke right in two 
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And I fell in strawberry vines 
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Into a pool of strawberry wine 
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Strawberry wine inclines 
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Burning in the desert surrounded by fires 
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but the stems break beyond more than the morning calls 
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Till its all just the same thing again oh god 
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Dont spend too much time on the other side 
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Let the daylight in 

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Before you give up and you cant break out of it my old friend 
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Cause its getting worse if you want any flowers 
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You better get your seeds into the ground 
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And I worry about you 
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Why? Because you want me to 





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Can you still have any famous last words 
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If youre somebody nobody knows 
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I don't know 
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Somebody go and ask Claire, she's been dead 20 years just look at her 
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hair 

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Strawberry blonde with curls 
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She gets her hair done then she gossips with the younger waitress 
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girls at the bar 

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The old irish rose drinking strawberry wine till it comes out her 

nose 

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Dont spend too much time on the other side 
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Let the daylight in 


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Before you give up and you cant break out of it my old friend 
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Cause its getting worse if you want any flowers 
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You better get your seeds into the ground 
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And I worry about you 
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Why? Because you want me to 


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Marty was a kid when he learned to sail boats 
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His dad was a DJ on the radio 
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He fell into a life of river boating crime 
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Now he's the man you see in prison if you want strawberry wine 
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Strawberry wine or smokes 
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He sent a letter to his friend explaining one night on coke 
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He and Claire jumped right into them strawberry vines 
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Lord knows you get lost on that strawberry wine 
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Dont spend too much time on the other side 
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Let the daylight in 


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This fellow downtown he jumped off a bridge 
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He was angry about a letter he received from his friend 
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He jumped into the banks of San Francisco Bay 
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Picking strawberries in the clouds all day 
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Cause with nothing left to lose you get screwed 
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You sell your apartment before they make you move 
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Then you jump straight into the arms of the most beautiful girl 
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Who had never ever lived in the history of the world 
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And with nothing left to prove you get screwed 
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And sell your apartment before they make you move 
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Gonna jump straight into the darkened bay 
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Picking strawberries with strawberry wine all day 
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So don't spend too much time on the other side 
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Dont forget to let the daylight in 

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Cause before you get old you better break out of it my old friend 
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Cause its getting better and if you want any flowers 
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You better get your seeds into the ground 
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Cause I worry about you 
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Why? Dont bother to ask me why 
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I'll be fine just sitting here laughing 
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Little old me and my strawberry wine 
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Strawberry wine 
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Strawberry wine