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Introduction:
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On a day just like this on the ocean four years
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ago now
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The wind was to strong the waves were to big
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three young men were thrown of the bow
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and I was at home they were fighting towards
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mother earth
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and two of them died only twenty years after
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their birth
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in october oh
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And the last of the three was left hopelessly
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crying for help
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The wind was screaming but the silence was
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stronger as he stood with his feet in the kelp
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The sun was still up but it was night time when
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I heard who died
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I only knew eric cause one time he gave me a
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ride
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in october oh
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Now I didn't know him well but I liked him he
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was one of those guys
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that everyone knew either liked him or not
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cause there were no sign of lies in his eyes
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I was seventeen years old the last time he
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spoke to me
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Now I'm twenty one and I'm older than he'll
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ever be
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in october oh
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My father is his mothers cousin so that makes
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us kin
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I remember those family dinners and the old
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peoples funerals again and again
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so strange looking round in the crowd when he
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wouldn't be found
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oh the look on the face of his brother when
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they lowered him down
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in october oh
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October is the best turns roads into beautiful
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trails
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The rime on the windows the leafs on your coat
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the frost on the cars and the rails
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Still out on the ocean those memories are
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bringing me down
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but I've heard there's a symphony playing you
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to sleep when you drown
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October again and again