The Big Game Is Every Night

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[Verse]

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  It'll get so quiet when this record ends
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  You can hear the first hour of the world
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  You can hear the willow branches touch the wave
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  Write our names beside our Darlings' hearts


[Instrumental]

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[Verse]

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  You can hear the willow branches touch the wave
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  Write our names beside nothing
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  Rise moon on the shores of the seas
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  Shine on the distance between me
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  and the last thing I see


[Refrain]

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Let it be me helping
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Let it be me honestly
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Let it be me working
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On being a better me


[Instrumental]

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[Verse]

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  Now light the field for the big game tonight
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  Mark twain to Thomas Jefferson  strike
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  Luke the Drifter to Zimmerman line drive
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to keep the team alive to keep the team alive
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  Rise moon on the shores of the seas
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  Shine on the distance between me
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  and the last thing I see


[Refrain]

          Am            F
Let it be me helping
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Let it be me honestly
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Let it be me working
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On being a better me


[Verse]

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  Unitas to Berry Unitas to Berry so good at scaring
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  With everything against you sweetness
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   You get the first down again
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  See it's ones like this you can always trust
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Not to disappoint us


[Instrumental]

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[Verse]

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  Moon shine that white lightning light
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  Down on the Possums' stage tonight
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  Maybe I'm the Man in Black
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   You could hold a little something back
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  Let his eyes adjust to the light


[Instrumental]

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[Verse]

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  Rise Moon right above me
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  Rise moon right above me
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  Rise moon right above me
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  Show an American if really
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  I am the snake they're all saying
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If they look up here do they see just my black tail swaying?
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If I'm all fangs and all lies and all poison
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If I'm really what they're saying
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I don't want to disappoint them.