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Lullaby

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Lullaby Lyrics

Sun is red
Moon is cracked
Daddy's never coming back
Nothing's ever yours to keep
Close your eyes
Go to sleep

And if I die
Before you wake
Don't you cry
Don't you weep

Nothing's ever as it seems
Climb the ladder to your dreams

And if I die
Before you wake
Don't you cry
Don't you weep

Nothing's ever yours to keep
Close your eyes
Go to sleep

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radiocure On Nov 12, 2004

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Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)

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Come on Up to the House

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radiocure

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2004-11-12 06:16:45

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by tsugumi

18y ago

beautiful

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by paedophageplayground

13y ago

I love this song and abhor why it means to me what it does.

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