The Virginian
Neko Case
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When I was young I knew a girl Who wouldn't love God as a test Or gamble with her happiness And so led astray So she did turn Her father would say You're only a guest of the Master But passion was her Sunday best And she fell away She fell away She fell away She fell away from the side of the Lord Then she was free to do what she wanted With clouds of her own Na na na na When she grew up She fell in love She thought it was all that she wanted She knew how it felt to be haunted And he ran away Picked herself up And said through her tears Don't waste anymore of your time You'll spend it all standing in line And they'll turn you away She fell away She fell away She fell away from the side of the Lord Then she was free to do what she wanted With clouds of her own Na na na na Hope and superstition And your heart's permission 'Cause you're good enough Good enough Good enough To make it alone Then when she died She didn't ask God To take her back into His graces She'd taken on too many shapes And too many were strange And as they laid her into the ground Her spirits they all flew all away The sun shone so bright on that day You'd've thought it was spring She fell away She fell away She fell away from the side of the Lord Then she was free to do what she wanted With clouds of her own Na na na na
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Written by: Brad Lampert, Carl Newman, Eric Napier, Neko Case
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