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  1. Going to South Carolina for the weekend, see you all Monday.

    Yeasayer – 2080
    I can’t sleep when I think about the times we’re living in,
    I can’t sleep when I think about the future I was born into,
    Outsiders dressed up like Sunday morning,
    But with no Berlin wall what the hell you gonna do.

    It’s a New Year,
    I’m glad to be here
    It’s a fresh spring,
    So let’s sing.

    In 2080
    I’ll surely be dead
    So don’t look ahead,
    Never look ahead.

    And the moon shines bright
    On the water tonight
    So we won’t drown
    In the summer sound.

    If you find me I’ll be sitting by the water fountain,
    Picket signs, letdowns, meltdown it’s Monday morning
    But it’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright
    It’s alright
    Cause in no time, they’ll be gone I guess I’ll still be standing here.

    It’s a New Year,
    I’m glad to be here
    It’s a fresh spring,
    So let’s sing.

    In 2080
    I’ll surely be dead
    So don’t look ahead,
    Never look ahead.

    And the moon shines bright
    On the water tonight
    So we won’t drown
    In the summer sound.

    Yeah Yeah we can all grab at the chance and be handsome farmers,
    Yeah you can have twenty one sons and be blood when they marry my daughters,
    And the pain that we left at the station will stay in a jar behind us.
    We can pickle the pain into blue ribbon winners at county contests.

  2. The deportation and jail goes for the immigrant, though usually just the deportation part (unless you are detained before your deportation date). The fine is for the citizen.

  3. “We don’t have a song”

    Neither do “we.” We don’t even like the same music! My bride and I had our first date at Don Shula’s restaurant in Miami, so maybe our song is the Miami Dolphins’ fight song. If they have one. We got married later on at City Hall in Manhattan. There was no music, only an argument when my cousin, who was the witness, realized he didn’t have legal ID.

  4. “Deportation, fine, jail.”

    Are you talking about what happens when you marry an illegal immigrant or when you date DIBS?

    Deportation and then fine and then jail? Wouldn’t it be the other way around?

  5. If I ever get married I plan to have 3 wedding songs: At Last by Etta James, Ribbon In The Sky and For Once In My Life by Stevie Wonder.

    For once in my life I have someone who needs me
    Someone I’ve needed so long
    For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me
    Somehow I know I’ll be strong

    For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of
    Long before I knew
    Oooh Someone warm like you
    Would make my dream come true

    Yeah yeah yeah

    For once in my life I won’t let sorrow hurt me
    Not like it hurt me before
    For once, I have something I know won’t desert me
    I’m not alone anymore

    For once, I can say, this is mine, you can’t take it
    As long as I know I have love, I can make it
    For once in my life, I have someone who needs me

    HE He He Hey yeah
    ooh baby ooh baby

    For once in my life I won’t let sorrow hurt me
    Not like it hurt me before
    For once, I have something I know won’t desert me
    I’m not alone anymore

    For once, I can say, this is mine, you can’t take it
    Long as I know I have love, I can make it
    For once in my life, I have someone who needs me

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