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Back in Mississippi
I loved a woman with black hair
dark eyes

had a husband in Carolina
we never spoke about
she stopped wearing her
ring around me
I forgot his name

When his contract expired
he came down south
moved into her apartment
that walk-up with the broken fence

I said I wouldn’t hit him
to her, mainly to the mirror
but I told her after,
what’d you expect?
You know me

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