Summer Bonfire

Sweet mother, come down and say your prayers
 For the fields are rank with summer, as if God just left them there
 Who's that caught in your death row stare?
 All your Midwest sons and daughters 'neath the world's electric...
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 Hey boys, down by the bonfire glow
 Oh yeah, rain on you selfish lovers
 Hey girls, drunk on the weekends
 Nubile skin meets car seat leather
 Radio forecasts stormy weather
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 In the morning down at the five-and-dime
 Watching golden pennies pancake on a sunburnt railroad line
 Dewdrops cover the world in brine
 And the salty bangs of August taste like long red bottles of...
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 Hey boys, down by the bonfire glow
 Oh yeah, rain on you selfish lovers
 Hey girls, drunk on the weekend
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 All the lads they come when their sisters call
 When the linseed oil and laughter turns to lust and alcohol
 Moonlight reaps what the midday sows
 All the yearlings leave their mothers when the summer bonfires...
 Hey boys, down by the bonfire glow
 Oh yeah, rain on you selfish lovers
 Hey girls, drunk on the weekends
 Lightning strikes the broken-hearted
 Find a field and let's get started