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 December 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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From a dying chestnut tree  
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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 December 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 December Road