[Intro]
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That old brown house is haunted
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Said the young boys in the road
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Who threw stones through faceless windows
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As the sky filled up with snow
I watched them from a taxi
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And the driver said of course
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That one time late at night he'd seen
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A young girl on the porch
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And it must have been a ghost he laughed
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I shivered in the cold
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And the snowflakes fell like ancient tears
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On South De cember Road
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Something in my heart remembered
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Long forgotten sins
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As they echo through those empty rooms
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And scatter in the wind
There's a branch that's barely hangin
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And it sways before the window where
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Your bedroom used to be
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And I drove the old man's Plymouth
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Through the tired Midwestern snow
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And you met me on the corner down
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On South De cember Road
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Now that drug store up on Main Street
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Has that sign above the door
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They've been satisfying customers
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Since 1934
We drank cherry flavored cola's there
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When we were seventeen
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But that soda fountain's gone now
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So I bought a magazine
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And I walked down toward the graveyard
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As the wind began to blow
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and I stumbled across the headstone
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Nearly buried in the snow
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And your face filled up my memory
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And a phantom filled my soul
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Like the cracks that filled the sidewalk down
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On South De cember Road