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Sewn on the bluebird canyon road
on the long lost Mexican coast
haunted by the fisherman ghosts
in their ghostly fisherman boats

Shown my a nimble black faced fox
with bracelet bells bound round her sox
who’ll answer to an old Russian name
and goes crazy at the first signs of rain

Woh, this disowned jewish mother got married to a gentile man
Woh, she holds a new born baby in her hands

And the sun shows what only that old ocean knows
every day is learning to let go

Old Pop knew the whole world was out on a limb
he taught his children how to swim
He sent money to the old Ukraine
where his brothers may still curse his name

We drove from a New England evergreen grove
to the Coatesville old folks home
pop smiled and said “where to begin?”
And I never saw him again

Woh, he got in trouble for stealing horses from the czar
Woh, he swam to Nova Scotia by the light of the stars

And the sun shows what only the old ocean knows
Every day is learning to let go

And now this story must circle around
to the gates of that old seaside town
dressed in a wild flower gown
watching the sun going down, down
watching the sun going down, down
watching the sun going down
watching the sun going down
watching the sun going down
watching the sun going down
watching the sun going down
watching the sun going down
watching the sun going down…

That young Sascha knows, what that old Sascha knows
what that young Sascha knows, what that old Sascha knows
what that young Sascha knows, what that old Sascha knows
what that young Sascha knows, what that old Sascha knows
what that young Sascha knows, what that old Sascha knows….

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1. Girl group for the living and the dead. 2. Characterized by layered imagery, and internal rhyme. 3. Your soundtrack to evade capture by the police.

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