Mountain Goats - Fall of the star high school running back
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Mountain Goats - The Fall of the Star High School Running Back.
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Sophomore yeCar, F F F
you Crushed for an aFverage of eFight and a thirdF yards per cCarry.F F F
F All eyes were on yFou.
Junior CyearF, F F
youC blew your kFnee out at an oFut of town gFame.
F Nowhere to go to but Fdown, down, down.
CNothing but the ground left for yFou to fall to.
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by JuCly, F F F
you'd mCade a wholeF bunch of bFrand new fFriends,
Fpeople you used to look dFown on.
And you'd figured oCut F a way to mFake real mFoney --
givin' Cends to your Ffriends, and it Ffelt stuFpendous.
F chrome spokes on your FJapanese bike,
but seG#lling acid was a bFad idea,
and seClling it to a cop was a wForse one.
And the nCew law said that seventFeen year olds could do fCederal time.
F you were the first one, so I sCing this song for yFou,
C William Stanaforth DFonahue,
your grCandfather rode the boat oFver from Ireland,
but yCou made a bad decFision or two.
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yeah.