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The Country's Killing Me

All day in the fields back at the river
Fighting with the Ryans
Who were over that summer

And we were trapping finches round
The broken cars near Lynch's house
When Mrs. Lynch came after us
With this steel bar from a cattle crush

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Alleluia the country's killing me
Save my soul take me back to the city

And tonight we'll set fire
To all the tyres in Campbell's barn
Then roll them down the hill
And out across their sleeping farm

And I was too young or she was too strange
But when Sheila climbed into my bed
I ran screaming from the house
My father thought someone was dead

And to think that we went hunting then
With dogs and guns and broken men
And we were gripped the night was lit
When all hell broke loose at the fox's den

But going home in the jeep was weird
The foxes on the floor had blood for beards
And they were still they were so still
I was crying but they could not hear