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For me to spend the gas money to get here
You don't question, you don't probe
You don't ask why I came back alone
I still send cash back in an envelope

Four score and seven years ago
So began the message
Of a war-weary President Abraham Lincoln
A message written on the back of
An envelope on a train

she folded up the pages
And slipped them back into the envelope
Then she took the goodbye letter
And dropped it in the mailbox on the porch
She thought,

All She Wrote

Ray Davies

Other People's Lives

2006

barmaids"

That's all she wrote
On the back of that old brown envelope
A few killer lines to get my goat
That's all she wrote

All she wrote on that

like a knew born cantaloupe
When i pulled up with a rope he aint have no hope
After i'm done send his bitch back with a envelope
She wearing a thong so

to wait on the come up
F*** is you talking bout’?
Seen it all baby I’m cool with that s***
Like a back of a envelope, glued to this s***
I can always keep

wrote, on the back of an envelope
I didn’t read it cause I knew what it said
Can’t we work it out somehow
Try it over again
Do it over again
Like the first

wrote, on the back of an envelope
I didn’t read it cause I knew what it said
Can’t we work it out somehow
Try it over again
Do it over again
Like the first

the trees
I found your note on the back of the envelope
I taught myself all the knots on a length of rope
You could never disguise how you energize
Once you

I was born on the back of an envelope
But I can't read or write about
The things that i will leave on the ground behind me
Hopefully it's something

And, I did a back of an
Envelope calculation during the Iraq war
It seems to me that six
Months expenditure on the Iraq
War would have solved the problem

an abomination to occur
I did a back of
An envelope calculation during
The Iraq war It seems to me that
Six months expenditure on the
Iraq war would have
Solved

Bigger Brighter Better

Roddy Frame

North Star

1998

young chewing gum acting like a dumb-dumb
All at sea woe is me let's get numb
Fast times, high hopes
Too whacked to push back the envelope

Bigger,

the back like a mascot
Envelope filled with 20’s and 50’s
And rubber bands I call the cash box
Hillbilly wanna chill with a cowboy Tell that hoe I’m not

And spectroscopes
With equations scribbled down on
Backs of envelopes
Published science papers
Scrutinised by peers
Our scientists reach out from
Our atmosphere

it
Breaking in. My momma left a note
Hurt I woke up in the hospital
Checked out that same day feeling horrible
Read the letter back and toss

the honor roll
Peel it back just like an envelope
I been working on my cardio
It's all 'bout to go to waste
Roll it up and play the "Carter 4"

Look, my mama

Everything they said I couldn’t have thats what im coming for
Front end cash app Back end Envelope
First nigga play with me it’s going down geronimo
They

everyday nonstop
Flip flop baby girl let me take you for shop
Back it up with envelope
everything line up
Heyyyyyyyy
Back it up
Back it up
Back it up

corners it is. Refs in charge and does the bizz
He makes the call and when he's back, a 10 grand envelope on the mat!
Simple as that!

This carries

became hurts too brittle for
spittle to bring its lips back into harmony,
Like envelopes that now know sticking to hope is itself vanity.
Now we use

(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River

T.I.S.M.

Machiavelli and the Four Seasons

Armstrong did moon, was not the same;
Heroes explore to give us hope;
River pushed back the envelope.

Drank the slab,
Drank the slab,
Drank the slab

House of Pain
I take it back like Purple Rain envelopes
Crazy Eddy episodes, break and enter hoes
Every record sold's equivalent to coke
Homie welcome

Flying Over Bus Stops

Athlete

Beyond the Neighbourhood

2007

right to the core
Stay here forever
I'm safe with you

If the words I've ever wrote
On the backs of envelopes
I could fold to paper planes
I would