verse 1
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Let me stay with you a while and tell old, old stories
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Of your oft' electric laughter and your charms
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How you came out of Montana with a wolf pup at your heels
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And a snow white rabbit huddled in your arms
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verse 2
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Remember, hey, those Gold Rush days, how the gold dust in the mud
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From Main St. leading all the way to Alder
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With sunset turned the color of a lover's throat at blush
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And with moonrise, blazed some new and silver river
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verse 3
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The minister was bloodless and the preachers were on fire
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And Mahatmas sang their love songs in nasturtiums
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But if he, or they, or any of their masters called my name
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I was in your holy temple and never heard them
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In the darkness
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Break
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verse 4
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Remember, hey, those Gold Rush days, some Last Chance Gulch saloon
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You, and I, and all the miners watching
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As shadows danced across a screen as quiet as the moon
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Without sound, their fury signifying all things
Verse 5
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The whole town was alive that night as we floated down the street
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Through fist fights, cowboy poets, parlor women
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And the light from the projector seemed to glow within your soul
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Like an opal throated songbird in its prism
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Verse 6
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They're tearing down the movies now, not a stone upon a stone
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All dust is dust no matter how celestial
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But I, who tasted hornet juice and honey on the rose
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What use have I for all their cold memorials?
Verse 7
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Still every now and then sometimes when the night sky gets so bright
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And no Bethlehem of stars could match its burning
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I Go out into the fields until I can feel you by my side
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And my memory is a book of gold thrown open
Bridge
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How you rode a white horse
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The queen of the harvest kissed your cheek
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The boys all took one look
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And found that they could no longer speak
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In the darkness
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In the darkness
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In the darkness