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    The Mountain Goats - Cotton

    This song is for the rats
    Who hurled themselves into the ocean
    When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold
    Were just about to blow

    This song is for the soil
    That’s toxic clear down to the bedrock
    Where no thing of consequence can grow
    Drop your seeds there, let them go
    Let them go

    Let them all go
    Let ‘em all go

    This song is for the people
    Who tell their families that they’re sorry
    For things they can’t and won’t feel sorry for

    And once there was a desk
    And now it’s in a storage locker somewhere
    And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons
    I left in the top drawer

    Let ‘em all go
    Let ‘em all go

    I wanna sing one for the cars
    That are right now headed silent down the highway
    And it’s dark and there is nobody driving
    And something has got to give

    I saw you waiting by the roadside
    You didn’t know that I was watching
    Now you know
    Let it all go

    Let ‘em all go
    Let it all go

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