Wheat Like Waves

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Wheat like waves, Canadian plains
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Were an ocean wide, flowing to the sky
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With Prefab Sprout echoing out
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Of your 90's accord with the mismatched doors
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Away from the wives for just a few days
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Traveling 'cross the divide my delusions ablaze
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But a homesteader's life at 45
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Was just a fleeting dream, there's no way I'd survive
 
 
[Bridge]
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The winters in Saskatchewan are so cold
 
 
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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You talked of your kid how frightened you'd been
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When she almost died with tears in your eyes
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But I could not pretеnd to comprehend
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The dеpths of that kind of love as a childless man
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And there's so little time, so many miles to drive
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Before the endless sleep eventually arrives
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But I never would've thought that life was so long
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That we'd be growing old with stories untold
 
 
[Chorus]
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You were kindled by the dials on the dashboard
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Your tattoos like the stamps upon your passport
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Speeding like we thought we were escaping
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From everything we feared that we were breaking
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By trying to hold them in our hands
 
 
[Instrumental]
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[Chorus]
         G                           A
You were kindled by the dials on the dashboard
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Your tattoos like the stamps upon your passport
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Speeding like we thought we were escaping
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From everything we feared that we were breaking
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By trying to hold them in our hands
 
 
[Outro]
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