| When she said,
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| 'Don't waste your words, they’re just lies,'
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| I cried she was deaf.
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| And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes,
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| Then said, 'What else you got left?'
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| It was then that I got up to leave
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| But she said, 'Don't forget,
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| Everybody must give something back
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| For something they get.'
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| I stood there and hummed,
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| I tapped on her drum and asked her how come.
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| And she buttoned her boot,
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| And straightened her suit,
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| Then she said, 'Don't get cute.'
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| So I forced my hands in my pockets
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| And felt with my thumbs,
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| And gallantly handed her
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| My very last piece of gum.
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| She threw me outside,
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| I stood in the dirt where ev’ryone walked.
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| And after finding I’d
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| Forgotten my shirt,
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| I went back and knocked.
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| I waited in the hallway, she went to get it,
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| And I tried to make sense
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| Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair
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| That leaned up against. |
| ..
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| Her Jamaican rum
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| And when she did come, I asked her for some.
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| She said, 'No, dear.'
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| I said, 'Your words aren’t clear,
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| You’d better spit out your gum.'
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| She screamed till her face got so red,
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| Then she fell on the floor,
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| And I covered her up and then
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| Thought I’d go look through her drawer.
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| And when I was through,
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| I filled up my shoe, and brought it to you.
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| And you, you took me in,
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| You loved me then,
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| You never wasted time.
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| And I, I never took much,
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| I never asked for your crutch,
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| Now don’t ask for mine. |