I'm Not There movie - The Man In The Long Black Coat lyrics

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Song by Mason Jennings<br /><br>

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high <br>

There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry <br>

Window wide open African trees <br>

Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze <br>

Not a word of goodbye not even a note <br>

She gone with the man in the long black coat. <br>

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Somebody seen him hangin' around <br>

As the old dance hall on the outskirts of town <br>

He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask <br>

If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask <br>

Somebody said from the bible he'd quote <br>

There was dust on the man in the long black coat. <br>

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Preacher was talking there's a sermon he gave <br>

He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved <br>

You cannot depend on it to be your guide <br>

When it's you who must keep it satisfied <br>

It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat <br>

She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat. <br>

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There are no mistakes in life some people say <br>

It is true sometimes you can see it that way <br>

But people don't live or die people just float <br>

She went with the man in the long black coat. <br>

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There's smoke on the water it's been there since June <br>

Tree trunks unprooted beneath the high crescent moon <br>

Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force <br>

Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse <br>

She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote <br>

She gone with the man in the long black coat.<br>

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