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Introduction:
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There are so many places for dying alone,
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Like a car or outside in the woods.
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Under a staircase or in your apartment,
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Doesn't that homebrew taste good?
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Won't you stay with me
In the dark?
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Stay with me,
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Don't ever stop.
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There are so many people you don't need to bother
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When you are dying alone.
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Loved ones and enemies, passing acquaintances,
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strangers whom you've never known.
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Won't you stay with me
In the dark?
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Stay with me,
Don't ever stop.
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This is the prayer of those dying alone,
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The most terrible fate that I know.
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Grasping for hands that abandoned you
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Just as your body abandons your soul.
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Your soul dies alone.
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Your soul dies alone.
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My son, there is one
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Who never could leave me
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He goes by the name Father Time.
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He's the reason for restlessness,
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Dreams unfulfilled,
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And the bags under each wrinkled eye.
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I can't stay with you
In the dark.
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Stay with you,
I must depart.
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One bit of freedom to dying alone
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It's the fate that I know that I own.