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Keywords: me debunk an American myth
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 | Keywords: where the great plains begin
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| |  | Keywords: at the hundredth meridian
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 | Keywords: driving down a corduroy road
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| |  | Keywords: weeds standing shoulder high
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 | Keywords: ferris wheel is rusting
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| |  | Keywords: off in the distance
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 | Keywords: left alone we get gigantic
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| |  | Keywords: hard huge and haunted
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 | Keywords: a generation so much
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| |  | Keywords: dumber than its parents
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 | Keywords: came crashing through the window
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| |  | Keywords: a raven strains along the line of a road
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 | Keywords: carrying a muddy old skull
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| |  | Keywords: the wires whistle their approval
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 | Keywords: off down the distance
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| |  | Keywords: if I die of vanity promise me
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 | Keywords: promise me they bury me
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| |  | Keywords: someplace I don't want to be
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 | Keywords: or dig me up and transport me
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| |  | Keywords: unceremoniously away from
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 | Keywords: the swollen city breeze
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| |  | Keywords: garbage bag trees
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 | Keywords: whispers of disease
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| |  | Keywords: and acts of enormity
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 | Keywords: and lower me slowly sadly and properly
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| |  | Keywords: get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy
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 | Keywords: Check your watch
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| |  | Keywords: you're fourteen and more
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 | Keywords: here lies a road
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| |  | Keywords: not travelled before
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 | Keywords: down in the cellar
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| |  | Keywords: there's beer on your breath
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 | Keywords: and up off the floor
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| |  | Keywords: did you let him explore
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 | Keywords: Check your map
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| |  | Keywords: you're Louis Riel
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 | Keywords: he rode a horse
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| |  | Keywords: before you were born
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 | Keywords: out in the flatlands
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| |  | Keywords: the money's all spent
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 | Keywords: and out in the field
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| |  | Keywords: your fate has been sealed
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 | Keywords: I'm the king of the past
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| |  | Keywords: but still I walk forward
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 | Keywords: I won't close my eyes
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| |  | Keywords: to the passing of time
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 | Keywords: I'm in Fredericton Northern
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| |  | Keywords: where the rivers make borders
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 | Keywords: and planes fly right over them
| |  | Keywords: check your map
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 | Keywords: cause you've lost your watch
| |  | Keywords: it's buried under snow
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 | Keywords: its time does not stop
| |  | Keywords: find your way homeward
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 | Keywords: the rivers are freezing
| |  | Keywords: and under the ice
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 | Keywords: the borders are changing
| |  | Keywords: I'm the king of the past but still
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 | Keywords: I walk forward
| |  | Keywords: I step over hundreds of years
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 | Keywords: yet to come
| |  | Keywords: while the eyes in the back of my head
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 | Keywords: draw no borders
| |  | Keywords: just rivers that channel the rain
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 | Keywords: (chase them away.)
| |  | Keywords: in the last days of Tecumseh
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 | Keywords: there in the end
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| |  | Keywords: there were rumours of invasions
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 | Keywords: and even talk of spacemen
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| |  | Keywords: but he couldn't believe
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 | Keywords: all that he knew would fade
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| |  | Keywords: in the ground
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 | Keywords: below the airplanes
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| |  | Keywords: Tecumseh were laid.
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