Key: D
Introduction:
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I knew a man who lived in fear
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It was huge, it was angry, it was drawing near
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Behind his house a secret place
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Was the shadow of the demon he could never face.
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He built a wall of steel and flame
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And men with guns to keep it tame
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Then standing back he made it plain
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That the nightmare would never ever rise again
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But the fear and the fire and the guns remain.
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It doesn't matter now, it's over anyhow
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He tells the world that it's sleeping
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But as the night came round, I heard its lonely sound
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It wasn't roaring, it was weeping
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It wasn't roaring, it was weeping.
And then one day the neighbours came