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Good to see you there. I see you fiddled with
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that that radio dial of yours until you found me.
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Yet again, I'm very thankful for it, very thankful. Indeed,
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you see you see I having a nice day? Are
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you having a nice day? Some days the air is
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just a little sweeter, you walk a little easier, and
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you don't concern yourself with that. And that's what today's
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been like for me, For me, and I hope it's
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been for you too, because my dear, I have a
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scary one for you tonight about a strange passenger, and
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I know you're going to enjoy it, so please take
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your favorite seat, get comfortable. The tea kettle is on,
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and now we're going to share a little scarce because
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scaring is character.
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In our sanctum mysteries. Good evening, friend, this is your
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host to welcome you through the creaking door into the
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inner sanctum. See how about joining a shriek at the
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month Clubs. We're offering free a shroud bound copy of
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The Alone and Like It. It's about an unsuccessful authoress
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who dies of marital illness. Yes, her husband got sick
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of her. However he was not foul enough to bury
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his novelist wife in the basement. Now at last she's
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in the best seller class. And now for the night's
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gruesome little items. Oh, you better not disturb that fellow
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in the corner. He's our ghost of honor tonight.
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Poor guy, he died last.
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Night for lack of sleep. Now he's in for a
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way mid John Thompson, age twenty nine, driving a blue
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coupe across the George Washington Bridge, heading wet.
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It's kind of a close knight.
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Keep lightning and dancing up in the sky. When I
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come down off the bridge in a Jersey running a
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mobile gas station isn't bad. And things a're breaking right
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by the way things.
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Are, I figure i'll do better out of the way.
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I hit the highway and let her out of it.
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I spotted her a few miles past the bridge.
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She's standing there by the side of the.
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Road, out in the middle of nothing. I don't know
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exactly why, but I stopped. Want to left k hoppens
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going far not very well?
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Yeah, when you want me to leave you off?
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Huh my name stops it?
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John taps hello, Yeah, Hello, what's your name?
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And where in particularly?
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Heading for her?
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I don't know but I'll know when we get there. Yeah, sure, Uh.
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Look, this ain't the old routine.
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But you look like I kind of know you from someplace,
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do I? I don't remember from where or when? But
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your faith, oh maybe just reminds me of somebody I
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used to know don't anymore? Maybe, uh, you don't remember me?
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Huh should I, Johnny, Well it would be kind of
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more sociable.
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I'll try, Johnny.
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We go on like that for a couple or three miles,
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her not saying anything, and me.
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Sneaking looks at her.
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She's pretty young and nice to.
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Have next to you, but there's this feeling that I
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don't know her, and don't I get to wondering where
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she's going in the middle of the night.
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I am yes, Johnny, maybe we can get some music.
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But now if for turning on the radio is over
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on your side? See oh right right, I got these
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all night programs with people like us, you know, driving
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at night or jocking a truck or sitting up with
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a sick friend.
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Our next request number just phoned in this minute by
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a young lady's name man.
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Uh, well, we can't make out your last name, man,
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but anyway, Lou's going right ahead and.
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Playing for you, Lou at the piano playing startups.
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He plays a nice piano, very nice. Got a funnier
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girl with the same name as yours, just phoning.
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Into the show and we started listening to it.
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I mean with the same first name, isn't yeah?
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Well, I get going too, I like gardess.
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Maybe you'd better try another station?
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Why, I like, yeah, but get another station.
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I'm happy with this.
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Swim get another station or trying to set off. I
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don't care where do what I'm telling you.
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Don't ask me why.
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I can't take that music if it bothers me?
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Are will you please? No? I said, would you please
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turn it off?
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No?
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Look, it's my car, it's my radio. I want you
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to Oh, never mind. I'll turn it off myself to
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watch the road.
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You might have an accident.
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I'll turn it off myself and I'll like all my hand.
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No, I don't want you to turn it off.
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Let's go.
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I got to keep my other hand on the wheel.
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I won't let go. I want you to listen to starter.
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I like what, I don't it.
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I'm warning you, all right, this is what you wanted.
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You wouldn't listen to me?
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No, that's right.
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Dam It's all black for a while, and then it
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streaks of light blackness and I shook my head.
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I was conscious again.
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I slid forward under the wheel of the car, had
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the tree, pulled myself up, get out of the car.
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I wasn't damnage bad bumper taking most of the shock.
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When we hit one fender was crumpled, and.
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I remembered and she was dead. I knew.
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I felt her neck give before we crashed.
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I swallowed hard for a couple of.
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Seconds and went back to the car, looked in.
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She wasn't there.
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She wasn't anywhere near the car.
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She hadn't be thrown clear. She must be dead. Said
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she wasn't there, not anywhere.
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I drove away fast. My head don't feels so good.
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But I stopped thinking. As I go through the night,
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I do puzzle.
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It was an arithmetic multiplication forty.
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Nine times seventy six, one hundred and two times twenty seven.
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So I don't think.
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Not thinking isn't easy when you're alone.
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So when I see a diner, I think that's for me,
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and I stopped get out.
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I walk over to the diner.
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Yeah, still heavy, and the cricket raising, came, I go in.
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I'll be next, Oh javing a hamburger? Yeah, coming up.
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Yeah, it's a hot night at it.
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Eh.
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Oh, I didn't know that you're sitting next to me. Yeah,
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it's plenty high.
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You're driving a nice car.
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I know this.
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You're pulling in.
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That's all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good, Say Joe.
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I was wondering you're going far far enough.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
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West Uh huh.
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How about me riding with you for a bit. My
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feet are getting normal tired.
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Holding me up?
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Well, sure, I guess.
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Thanks, thanks a lot.
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Yeah, I could use a bit of company.
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For Hey, how do you dropped your coffee? I'm sorry,
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don't get anything on you.
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Oh you missed, but your hands are trembling.
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I'm sorry.
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Come on, let's get out of here, and I don't
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take care of my check.
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But hey, you won't.
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Finish your hand.
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But I'm not hungry.
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Well you mind if I work.
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It over, of course, not only.
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Let's get out of here, yours dark knight, hurry up,
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will you? Yeah?
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Darping up the height.
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Of corpse in?
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What did you mean back there by dark enough to
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hide a corpse?
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Nothing?
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Just an expression why it seemed like a funny thing
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to say.
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I don't think so.
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Hey, hey, you better slow down.
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We're going through a town.
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I deserve it this our night.
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No, it ain't.
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Look at that down near the corner.
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Ah, you've seen her.
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Huh, standing under that lamp post pretty as a picture,
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ain't she? Hey, slow down with you? Maybe she wants
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to lift you're crazy. Well, look she's given us the thumb.
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We're gonna pass her in a minute. I don't bother me.
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Yeah, but.
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Hey, hey, she's calling you. She knows you. You can't
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pass up a girl like that. You shut up way,
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I don't get it. You was willing to give a
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hobo like me you're lifting? You don't even know me.
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You know that she's not there, She can't be.
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Well, you've seen her.
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No, you look where I was pointing. You hate us?
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No?
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All right, yes I did. But she's not real.
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She couldn't be.
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Why she's dead?
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Yeah, how do you know?
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Because I because I saw her die.
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Yeah, yeah, in an accident one hundred miles from here.
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Well, and what was she doing under that lamp hood?
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I don't know. Maybe it's a ghost. Maybe I'm going crazy.
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I see not, and maybe you're dead too, and the
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ghost ride with me.
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Well, well, look at you, chips off an old block
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of eyes, splinters from the petrified forest. Or are you
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always that way? Mm hmm, Oh, you're not really frightened,
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just pretending. Well, then suppose you climb down off that
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chandelier and listen to the rest of the story about
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John Thompson who took a girl for a boogie.
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Ride John and Obama.
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He picked up rode on for a while. Tim and
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I was closer and heavier, and John was tired.
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He watched it will you?
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Uh sorry, I closed my eyes for a second.
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Well you better keep him open. It's healthier.
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Yeah, I've kind of prooved.
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It's been a long night.
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That uh shadow about ghosts?
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Yeah?
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How come I was kidding you?
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War Huh?
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It wouldn't be because.
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How would you like to get out?
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I'd like it fine. I get nervous riding with a
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guy who turns green when you mentioned corpses. Hey, hey,
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watch that bridge and you nearly dunk us in that stream.
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I can't keep my eyes.
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Oh but if I washed my fate, bade my eyes
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with Yeah, that's an idea.
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You can stay in the car.
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Only be a couple of seconds.
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I'll go along. I could use a drink.
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Yeah, water, that's good, star peaceful.
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You know you could sleep in water like that.
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Yeah, sure, but you wouldn't wake up, go on wash
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huh oh.
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Yeah's as well.
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Sure cool, it's good. Huh good for what ails you?
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But what does hit you?
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Mister?
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Nothing.
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I'm tired, that's all.
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Getting sleepy.
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I'm better now.
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Okay, let's get back to the car.
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I'm walking the rest of the way.
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Yeah, I want.
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To get there.
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There's nothing wrong with my driving.
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I didn't say.
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There was, mister, But you're sure there ain't something wrong
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with you?
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All right, walk, I don't need anybody to ride with.
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Oh, mister, you already got somebody or something riding with you.
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So I walked back to the car.
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Let me get in.
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I don't pay no attention.
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The old bump said, nothing wrong with me? Nothing.
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Got the car and drive off down the highway into
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the darkness.
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The long night, maybe the longest night I ever lived.
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But it's only night someplace western New York.
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And that's all.
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The storm hanging overhead, never breaking, that's all.
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Hello, Johnny.
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There sitting right next to me, but she saw me
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looking at her.
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Gee smile, Hello, Johnny.
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Oh oh, I idn't expect to see her again.
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No, I left you.
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So far behind, not so far behind.
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Yeah, but I guess you must have got a list
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on some other car, faster car than mine.
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That's how you got ahead of me, way.
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Ahead of you.
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That's the way I was sure. You're you're you're, you're all.
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Right, though, I'm all right, very all right.
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I'm glad to hear it.
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I mean, funny it it rains still holding off you.
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You're not gonna sworn it a four hours ago.
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Why are you talking so much, Johnny?
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Because because I'm afraid.
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When would we get there, Johnny.
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Get where where you're going?
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I don't know why, because I'm going there with you.
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Oh that songs back again.
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I don't have to take it.
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I can't take it.
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Shot to sing that song. I told her I didn't
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like it.
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I'm not gonna tell her again. I won't do any
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good this time. I'm gonna play it smart and sure.
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She's looking straight ahead, watching the roads lie under the headline.
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So I choked the car.
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Hey, what is it?
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Johnny?
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All right?
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If be something wrong?
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Oh yeah, I better get out and see.
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I'll wait here.
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Sure, get the hood up, m h.
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Yeah, and yeah, I.
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Can fix it, but will you bring.
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Me the wrench in the dashboard compartment?
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All right, I thought it, Wow, will you bring it
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to me?
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And oh, well, I have to do it.
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Hm m hmm.
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What's that behind you?
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Where we turn around? You'll see?
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All right?
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So she turned her back to me, looks down the
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road we came and I lift the heavy wrench and
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I this time I made sure she's dead lying on
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the road. But I still got to make sure she
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won't even dead be riding with me again.
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So I lift her up, put her back in the car,
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get it myself.
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Nice to her, start the car.
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I remember the stream. It's not much of the.
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Stream, but deep enough for a thin girl, the lion,
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and that's where I go.
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I don't take long, get back to the stream, the bridge.
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Over which is where I stop.
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Nobody around, only the darkness and the water flowing underneath
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where Ann is going to lie. But before I let
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her go, I they go out my tools, tire, iron, wrenches,
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the jack, heavy stuff.
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Tie them to her so she'll lie quiet under the water.
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And I get done everyhow heavy.
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Thing she ever was before.
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But I lifted over the rail, hold it for a
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second in my arms.
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Then I blittered hold cross quick, not off a loud
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into the water, drops to the bottom of the stream
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where maybe maybe.
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It'll be soft and cool for her.
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And I gotta get away from here, fast, fast. Every
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time the wheel turns around, every time the valves opening close,
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every time the spots fire, getting further away from her.
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This time she isn't going to follow me. This time
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she's deep under the water with irons tied or her
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head bashed.
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It never turn around again and find her.
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Sitting next to me.
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I never hear her calling Johnny again.
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I never see her eyes or a thin body again
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while they're pressing down.
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Now, no more move.
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It's thunder purring.
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Closer like a big cat.
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I don't care.
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I'm through her forever now.
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I'm so happy I could sing, Oh no.
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This sky throat the life that is turning off on
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on like God neon sign.
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The thunder's pounding in my head.
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I go faster, hit a curve, take it at sixty,
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standing there, flit by the light and it's gas metals
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down on the floor.
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The motor's roaring like a hundred horses screaming.
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We're pulling up the hill with the rains slanting against
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the window pane like a.
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Million fingers tapping on my brain, the top of.
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The hill swept by the window, wet dress plastered against
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their bodies.
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I can't take it.
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I can't take it much more of the car sliding
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down the wet road like death on butter And she's
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there all the time, now, running with a car face
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plastered against the closed window next to my seat.
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Johnny, And you're dead, am I? You're dead. I killed you.
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Don't you remember back there?
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I hit you, I dropped you into the water at you?
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You're dead, am I?
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Johnny? No, no, no, and please please, I'm tired, Johnny,
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tired of running away. Isn't the road too long? The
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road away, away.
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Go away.
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You don't want to drive me mad? So what do
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you want?
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Just to go with you to the end of your room?
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Where's that?
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Why? Maybe here? Maybe right here in this town, Johnny,
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in this time.
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Yeah, this is town, small place, and I'm riding through it.
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Sot. I'm dying out, dang out.
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Yeah.
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The air's clear now fresh after the starm Ah, no,
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she's gone now the thing is where?
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Uh right up ahead?
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Sure they always have one.
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Yeah, green light shining over the door, and they're always open.
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And it's always aside and half.
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Sleeping in the chair behind the desk.
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Hello, oh, mone, do you want?
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My name is John Thompson.
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All right, so your name is John Thompson. So on
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if you check, I think you will find that I'm wanted.
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Wanted for what for the murder of my wife Ann Thompson.
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Ah, Hey, don't move, I've got your cupboard.
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I killed her in our apartment in New York City.
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Come on, stick your hands out, and.
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I killed her. The radio is on her. They were
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playing Starter.
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Ho would you like a new arrangement of Starter. We're
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billing it this week as tune number one.
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Of the Murderer's Hot Parade, with.
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Of course a boogeyman beat on a new grave laying
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before I stop off for a little chat with John
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in that one way death cell appeared. Let me give
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you a bit of homicidal advice. Never kill your wife
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with a radio on.
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Tune in later.
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Well, friends, it's time once again to close that creaking door.
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Atil next week at the same time, when we'll be
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back with a little hank of mara.
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You'll be shure.
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Listen, don't you until next week?
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Then good night, pleasant stream.
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The Inner Sanctum has come to you through the worldwide
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facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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The wind always seems to pick up around this time
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of night, but I'm sure it's nothing. Did you have
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a good time this evenings? I know I do. I do,
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But it is getting late, and I suppose it's time
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for you to go back to your warm, cozy bad
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while I prepare to go back to wherever it is
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I come from. The sun will be up soon, but
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don't you worry. I'll be right here tomorrow morning, just
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for you. Rain or shine, sleek or snow, rain or death,
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I'll be right here see you tomorrow night, and remember
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remember be thankful for what you have
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