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Satisfied

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Satisfied

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When i'm gone, huh

When i'm gone

Roll my vertebrae out like dice

Let my skull be a home for the mice

Let me bleach like the bones on the beach

I'll be hard like a pit from a peach

Now the ground has a branch, huh

Now the hound has a ranch, huh

The old tressel's just junk

The edsel is on blocks

The old said so… won't talk

I'm a blimp that's straining, cut 'er ties

I'm a moth in training, flutter by, huh

When i'm gone

When i'm gone

I said i will have satisfaction

I will be satisfied

I said i will be satisfied

When i'm believing: satisfaction

When i'm grieving: satisfaction

When i'm shaking: satisfaction

When i'm praying, huh: satisfaction

When i'm staying: satisfaction

When i'm carousing, he heh

When i'm a thousand

I said i will have satisfaction

I will be satisfied

Before i'm gone

Before i'm gone

I will have satisfaction

I will be satisfied

I will have satisfaction

I will be satisfied

Now mr. jagger and mr. richards

I will scratch where i've been itching

Now mr. jagger and mr. richards

I will scratch where i've been itching

Before i'm gone

Before i'm gone

Before i'm gone

Before i'm gone

Let me go back into the barrel

Let the bullet go back into the barrel

Let the bullet go back into the barrel

Let the bullet go back into the barrel

Before i'm gone

Before i'm gone

I said i will have satisfaction, huh

Let the bullet go back into the barrel

Let the bullet go back into the barrel

Take a left off the straight and the narrow

Let the bullet go back into the barrel, huh

Wow

Wow

Before i'm gone

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