Cross Of The Flowers

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[Verse 1]

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There's a cross of flowers at the roadside
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Where some fool bought it two years back
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There's an orchard gone to hell
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Beside a burned out one-room shack
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And there's a thousand sparrows falling
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In a thousand shades of black
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I'm coming home


[Verse 2]

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There's a steeple on the skyline
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Like a single iron nail
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There's a windmill doing nothing
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And a low moan on the rails
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Where the coal train takes the corner
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And the light begins to fail
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I'm coming home
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I'm coming home


[Verse 3]

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There's a red barn in the half-light
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And a white frost on the shade
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And in the bars down off the main drag
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They're drinking down what they got paid
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And I wonder in all my leaving
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If I ever could have stayed
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I'm coming home


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 4]

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There's a junked out car in the tall grass
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It ain't ever gonna sell
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Jimmy's raising daughters
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And Jack's out raising hell
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And I always said I loved you
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I never said I loved you well
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I'm coming home
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I'm coming home
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I'm coming home