06a Thirty Years of Tears (folk mix)

Is this a place I can rest my poor head
To gather my thoughts in sweet silence?
Is this a place where the feelings aren't dead
From an overexposure to violence?
And is this a place I can slowly face
The only one I truly can know?

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These are tears from a long time ago
I've got these tears from a long time ago
And I need to cry thirty years or so
These are tears from a long time ago

Darling, oh darling, you say unto me
Oh where have you been all my lifetime?
Well, I have been swimming the seven sad seas
Fair women have thrown me their lifelines
And I pulled them in to the water's dark grin
I'd have warned 'em but I did not know

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Well, I've cried me a river, I've cried me a lake
I've cried till the past nearly drowned me
Tears for sad consequence, tears for mistakes
But never these tears that surround me
Alone in this place with a lifetime to trace
And a heartbeat that tells me it's so

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