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[Verse 1]
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Still waters at night in the darkest of dark
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but you rise as white as the birch tree's bark.
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Or a pale wolf in winter,     you look down and shiver
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 at still waters at night.

[Verse 2]
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Your eyes are as black as the blackness you're fearing,
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and yonder a bridge and a voice within hearing.
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Come walk on me   softly,   look down and you'll see
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  still waters at night.

[Bridge]
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You've reason to fear   there is no protection,
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but a garland of emeralds   and a moonlit reflection
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of a boat in the distance   will the devil take   his chance
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  at still waters at night.

[Verse 3]
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So dance me a small dance and the night cannot hurt you,
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nor the waters be silent, nor the emeralds desert you.
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For the boat's full of bright   scarves   and wild hats among them,
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songs of the vagabond,   it's to you he has sung them
                  Am      Am         D
and shattered the silence   of still waters at [Outro] night.

[Outro]
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