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Centinela by Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible

The story starts, it was a late November night
She had a flower in her hair, he had his uniform on tight
He patrolled his watch, (1)________ (2)______________ else was wrong
She danced by him with her face as (3)________ as dawn

He looked (4)________ her (5)________ and saw (6)______________ there
He said, "excuse me seƱorita, but I don't believe we've had the pleasure"
She said "of course you know me, I'm here every year,
but don't you get to close when I'm (7)______________ my dear"

He thought, "how can I not fall in love with that,
a pretty little women with an attitude to match"
He reached for her hand, and she wasn't impressed,
she wanted little to do with his gentle caress.

Won't you dance with me tonite
Hold my hand under the moonlight
All we (8)________ is just today
Until my bones (9)________ blow away.

And this happened every year .. every year (10)________ clock work.

But let me (11)__________ tell how it really began

About ten years from (12)______________ this date
A young man was sent away to fight in a far off place
La Centinela had to say goodbye,
had to leave his home and his lover's pretty eyes

It broke her heart and she wanted him to stay
But not even her gentle hands could persuade him another way.
He was gone for (13)________ seemed to be years,
and his beautiful lover counted everyday with tears

November 1st was the last time she cried
thinking he'd be coming (14)________ but all she heard was that he'd died.
She was told he was a brave young man
But it was news his young lover just, she just couldn't understand.

So she drowned her sorrow and her soul, the only way she knew how
by throwing herself into the well. She thought together, they'd be (15)________________ in the afterlife.

Won't you dance with me tonite
Hold my hand under the moonlight
All we have is just today
Until my bones just blow away.

But what she didn't know, is (16)________ she had heard wrong
The young man did return, only to find that she had fallen
Her untimely death (17)__________ that (18)________ (19)________ now both alone
Never to dance together again or see how old that (20)________ had grown

The (21)________ day he placed (22)______________ by the well
burned candles in the (23)______________ wishing he'd been the one that fell
He knew seeing her wouldn't happen with just tears
So he decided to (24)________ for her, (25)________ she had done for all those years

November 2nd from this point on
He made (26)________ he (27)__________________ until the (28)__________ of dawn
So they could dance together, for just this one day,
Holding (29)__________ with his calavera on El Dia de la muerte

Won't you dance with me tonite
Hold my hand under the moonlight
All we have is just today
Until my bones just blow away.
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