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[Verso 1]

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I work on the border 
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I see what I see 
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I work on the border 
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And it's working on me 



[Verso 2]

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I lie awake at night 
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Knowing what I know 
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There's a price on my head 
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Of every border patrol 
 

[Verso 3]

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Where the smugglers do business 
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That's where I make a stand 
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I know this old desert 
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Like the back of my hand 


[Verso 4]

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I see greed in the bushes 
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I see snakes in the dark 
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Some are friends of my brothers 
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Can't you hear them dogs bark 

 

[Refrão]

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I come home to Maria 
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At the end of the day 
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In thе shape of a shadow 
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Holding demons at bay 
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'It's just a border' thеy say 



[Verso 5]

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It was Mexican soldiers 
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Out of a black Humvee 
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With their guns to their shoulders 
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Aimed at my partner and me 


[Verso 6]

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As they drove away laughing 
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But the message was clear 
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We don't care about nothing 
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But the money down here 


[Refrão]

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I come home to Maria 
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In a bulletproof vest 
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With the weight of the whole wide world 
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Barring down on my chest 
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It's just a border I guess 


[Ponte]

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From the shacks and the shantys 
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Come the hungry and poor 
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Some to drown at the crosses 
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Some to suffer no more 


[Verso 7]

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Guess you heard about Campos 
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And Ramien 
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Both of them friends of mine 
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Both good men 
 

[Verso 8]

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They did one thing right 
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And look what they got 
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Federal prison 
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Where they're both going to rot 

 

[Refrão]

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I come home to Maria 
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Where else would I go 
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Cross the River to die by myself 
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Down In old Mexico 
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It's just the border y'know