Key: A major
Verse 1
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I lived alone in old Carntine
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Where sorrow fills the bars
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I'll walk beside the Firth of Clyde
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In winter's lonely hours
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By winter walls
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I still recall the love that I let go
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I close the door and love no more
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I watch the swirling tide flow
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She gave me the keys to the forest,
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the keys to the forest, and then
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She gave me the key s to the forest,
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the keys to the forest,
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and then the forest was mine.
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I met her on the edge of town
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Her hand was in her hair
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She smiled at me so dangerously
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Resistance was laid bare
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She laid me in the wooded glen
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Where good men disappear
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Her willing hand
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caressed the land,
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she left me lying there.
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The forest filled my heart with fear
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As I lay there alone
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I saw the names of
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unknown men
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Carved in the shining stone
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I fell apart in stinging rain
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Cold fingers stole my mind
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Inhu man force tore at my sores
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And left me charred and blind
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She gave me the key s to the forest
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The keys to the forest
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And then she gave me
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the key s to the forest
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The keys to the forest
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And then the forest was
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mine
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Yeah, though I lie in ghostly latrines,
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My hand in another man's case,
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My face is wet on shining stone,
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I still can't taste her kiss
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And now the pictures on my wall
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portray no sign of life
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Their branches bare,
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the dead men stare,
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and dried blood on their lips.
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You
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