Cotton

This song is for the rats
 Who hurled themselves into the ocean
 When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold
 Were just about to blow
 This song is for the soil
 That's toxic clear down to the bedrock
 Where no thing of consequence can grow
 Drop your seeds there, let them go
 Let them all go
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 Let 'em all go
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 This song is for the people
 Who tell their families that they're sorry
 For things they can't
 And won't feel sorry for
 
 And once there was a desk
 And now it's in a storage locker somewhere
 And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons
 I left in the top drawer
 Let 'em all go
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 Let 'em all go
 ♪
 I wanna sing one for the cars
 That are right now headed silent down the highway
 And it's dark and there is nobody driving
 And something has got to give
 I saw you waiting by the roadside
 You didn't know that I was watching
 Now you know
 Let it all go
 Let 'em all go
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 Let it all go