Centinela by Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible

The story starts, it was a late November night
She had a (1)____________ in her hair, he had his (2)______________ on tight
He (3)__________________ his watch, like nothing else was wrong
She danced by him (4)________ her face as (5)________ as dawn

He looked into her eyes and saw nothing there
He said, "excuse me señorita, 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 dancing my dear"

He thought, "how can I not fall in love with that,
a (6)____________ little (7)__________ 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 have is just today
Until my bones just blow away.

And this happened every year .. every year (8)________ clock work.

But let me first tell how it really began

About ten years from exactly this date
A young man was sent (9)________ to fight in a far off place
La (10)__________________ had to say goodbye,
had to leave his home and his lover's pretty eyes

It broke her (11)__________ and she wanted him to stay
But not even her gentle hands could persuade him another way.
He was gone for what seemed to be years,
and his (12)__________________ lover counted everyday with tears

November 1st was the last time she cried
thinking he'd be coming home but all she heard was that he'd died.
She was told he was a brave (13)__________ 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 (14)________ how
by (15)________________ herself into the well. She thought together, they'd be together in the afterlife.

Won't you dance with me tonite
Hold my hand (16)__________ the moonlight
All we have is (17)________ today
Until my bones just blow away.

But what she didn't know, is that she had heard wrong
The (18)__________ man did return, only to find that she had fallen
Her untimely death meant that (19)________ were now (20)________ alone
Never to dance together again or see how old (21)________ they had grown

The next day he placed flowers by the (22)________
burned candles in the evening wishing he'd been the one that fell
He knew seeing her wouldn't happen with just tears
So he decided to wait for her, like she had done for all those years

November 2nd from this point on
He made sure he patrolled until the break of dawn
So (23)________ could dance together, for (24)________ this one day,
Holding (25)__________ with his calavera on El Dia de la muerte

Won't you dance with me tonite
Hold my hand under the moonlight
All we (26)________ is just today
Until my bones just blow away.

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