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"TAINTED OBLIGATIONS" (As performed by the Community Trolls)
(This song has Michael Stipe singing lead vocals, and can be found on a number
of R.E.M. bootlegs, including "Those Were the Days", "Life's Rich Pageant
and More". I'm also pretty sure that Matthew Sweet is singing backing vocals.)
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I saw the shoals at night, with the moon above.
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I felt an obligation, and heard your voice again.
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If you were here once, you were here a hundred times.
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If I reached out tonight, I found I couldn't fight it.
If you were here once, you were here a hundred times.
Ohhhhhh
Best as a wishing star, I saw you better far away,
and I felt obligation, and heard your voice again.
Hear the rush of water, passing over the shoals.
Hear my heartbeat rather, if I reached out tonight.
If I reach out tonight and find I can't fight it,
and look to the stars, and wander towards a
heartfelt obligation, a place that you called home
and heard your voice again, but it's too late.
You left long ago, and now you're probably dead and gone,
and I'm left here with the water and the shoals and a tainted obligation.
Ohhhhhh
Tainted obligations
Tainted obligations
Ohhhhhh
Ohhhhhh
{continue to end}