Kevin MorbyBeautiful Strangers
 



Introduction
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Verse 1
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 If you ever hear that thunder,
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put your eye to the sky, boy, and wonder
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Maybe there's a kingdom above the weather
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Oh, and whether you're gonna get our name, is up to him
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  If you ever hear that crying
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in the distance like some siren
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Maybe there's a singer with no ring
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around their little finger, no love
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And if I lose my voice, if I have no choice but to go quiet
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Won't you sing for me a melody into the night air
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And if I die too young, or the wolf he comes, fee-fi-fo-fum
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If I die too young, oh, if the locust come, well then, run, run, run, free


Verse 2
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If you ever hear that gunshot,
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you may think 'bout what you do but you don't got
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Say a prayer, think of mother, I am a rock
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 If you ever hear that sound now
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If the door gets kicked in, here they come now
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Think of others, be their cover
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I am what they're not
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Pray for Paris, they cannot scare us, or stop the music
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You got a sweet voice, child, why don't you use it?
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If I die too young, or if the gunmen come, I'm full of love
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So release me, every piece of me, up above, (Up above)


Verse 3
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  Love my mama and my papa
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  Love my sister, can't stand the coppers up in their choppers
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Oh, flying overhead, forty-nine dead
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   Singing, oh, my Lord, come carry me home, oh, my Lord, come carry me home
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I'm singing oh, my God, oh, my Lord, oh my God, oh my Lord,
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oh my God, oh my Lord, Oh, my Lord
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And if I die too young for something I ain't done, carry my name every day
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Oh, I'm sorry, Oh, I'm sorry, Freddie Gray
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But sleep easy like baby Jesus in a manger
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Oh, sleep easy like little Jesus, beautiful stranger
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Oh, beautiful stranger


Instrumental
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Outro
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If I die too young, let all that I've done be remembered
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And I'll sleep easy like baby Jesus in his manger
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And I'll sleep easy like little Jesus, safe from danger
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Carry onward like some songbird, beautiful stranger
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Carry onward like some songbird, beautiful stranger
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 Oh, beautiful stranger