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The Dear Hunter – This Beautiful Life Lyrics 16 years ago
After another listen I've changed my mind completely.
I think the last line is

"A boy _in_ his innocent..."

with "world" being the implied word, not girl.

The whole song is about him regretting that he isn't innocent anymore (because he saw so much violence in the war), so he is imagining / wishing that he was in his previous innocent world.

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The Dear Hunter – This Beautiful Life Lyrics 16 years ago
The last paragraph actually needs a couple further changes that I just noticed
we've -> we, and calloused -> callous

Forget the words to the songs that we've heard
The passages read all the names in a world
That have brought us this pain
From the wounds we sustained
A cold, callous heart
Sitting still in this cave of a chest
So abandon a life from before
A boy and his innocent...

Another note - the implied word after innocent is probably "girl". That's my opinion anyway. The last word of the song is definitely "innocent" and not "innocence" though.

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The Dear Hunter – This Beautiful Life Lyrics 16 years ago
One foot, then the other
Such embarrassment
It wasn't meant that
I, I should discover
Such offensive things
This suffering sends
Hope to the ground
But I really never had enough
They've got pride in him
This tide turns lives over

A back-town prophecy
Adorned in stony skin
We never ever [never ever]
Ever had to lie to move ahead
But here in oblivion
We cling to what we can
So in the end [in the end]
We can say that with these hands
We took it all back
It all back

So let us force a smile
And pretend that we're alive
Oh, but somewhere
None of this happened
The bullets removed themselves
Life is beautiful I have
A home above the lake where I could

Forget the words to the songs that we've heard
The passages read all the names in a world
That have brought us this pain
From the wounds we've sustained
A cold, calloused heart
Sitting still in this cave of a chest
So abandon a life from before
A boy and his innocent...

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The Dear Hunter – He Said He Had a Story Lyrics 16 years ago
There was a silver circle sign, and she was standing at the door
We pressed our way right through the crowd, our pace was quickened to her floor
There was a single feigning light, and there was silk all on the walls
She had a lot of love to give, I was prepared to take it all

"But what did she do next?"

She had disrobed, and she was waiting on the floor
She asked me what it was I want, I thought that I wanted it all

"What did you say?"

I said "Stand up and move your body to the bed."
She quickly stood, and slowly turned, and here's exactly what she said

"Please be soft and sweet to me,
this life has not been good you see
its hard with such a history buried in misery."

"And what did you do next?"

I broke a smile, reminding that I paid her well.
Her lips returned, and then I felt her hands unbuckling my belt.

"So was it good?"

Oh, it felt like heaven, but I'm sure she was in hell
I made it clear I'd get my money's worth out of the goods she sells

Break and bind yourself to me
Deliver what you've sold you see that
I will only take from you, and use it up
I'll use you up

What was your name?

Break and bind yourself to me
Deliver what you've sold you see that
I will only take from you to use it up
I'll use you up

What was your name?

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The Dear Hunter – Saved Lyrics 16 years ago
Amongst the stone and smoke
We never laid before
Images floating all about
Life in the afterglow

My decaying mind pretends
None of this ever happened
We either learn to live a lie
Or we're waiting here to die

And after all this suffering
I could lie here for good
With a mind on fire
I try and stand my ground

Illuminate and I will follow...

Amongst the stone and smoke
Rising above it all
Broken but not beyond repair
See how this soul fairs

From after all this suffering
I could lie here for good
But with a mind on fire
I try and stand my ground

Illuminate and I will follow you

Everything you thought you lost you've found
[x5]

Let's see how this all fairs

The private does what the general says,
The general does what the president says,
The president does what the first lady says
So, so they say

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The Dear Hunter – Mustard Gas Lyrics 16 years ago
Here they are
The wicked
A panic floods the field
Deliverance
Unthinkable
They play the part, performing oh so well

With empty cause, they carry on
A twisted soul, an apparition
Born of a beastly brand
They butcher purposely
[Just have the sense to run away]

Scream at the sky and beg
Beg for a reason he would allow this
Look to the sky and say
We would be better off without this
Who would allow this?

We've never felt alive
But none of us can die just when we want to
[Want to]
We're stuck in this disguise
With leather skin these eyes designed to haunt you
[Haunt you]
But do we haunt you?

Scream at the sky and beg
Beg for a reason he would allow this
Look to the sky and say
We would be better off without this
Who would allow this?

From the other side
[x8]

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fixed a few errors/cleaned it up

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The Dear Hunter – The Thief Lyrics 16 years ago
Shrouded
Criminal
An innovative mind
(he was _________??)

Shadowed
They're oblivious
with plans awry
(he was _________??)

Who can save us now?

Love seems barren when cash is king
Wealth here for the bleeding what good will bring
More than I could ask from those who sleep
A crooked mind, an honest heart ancillary
They collide

Cheating
Innocence
I've got the time tonight

Tonight x 6

Got time, got time x 7

Love seems bare of meaning when cash is king
Wealth here for the bleeding what good will bring
Be more than I could ask from those who sleep
A crooked mind, an honest heart ancillary
They collide

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the only thing I can't make out is what the background singers are saying after each of the first 2 verses. the first 2 words are either "he was" or "we must" but the next part I can't tell. sounds something like spear and slow, spirits low, miracle, or spiritual, or but none of those make sense at all. A couple other sites have "we must let words go" but I'm pretty sure that's wrong.

I actually don't have a prob w/ the original poster putting "baron" instead of "barren"; it shows the nice wordplay by Casey to someone who might not catch it, since the song is saying that love < cash. Similarly, a baron < a king.

Oh and like the guy said above me, the first time it's "love is barren" and the second time it's "love is bare of meaning".

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