Centinela by Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible

The story starts, it was a (1)________ November night
She had a (2)____________ in her hair, he had his uniform on tight
He patrolled his watch, like (3)______________ else was wrong
She danced by him with her face as pale 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 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 have is just today
Until my bones just blow away.

And this happened every (4)________ .. every year like clock work.

But let me first tell how it (5)____________ began

About ten years from exactly this date
A young man was sent (6)________ 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 (7)__________ and she wanted him to stay
But not (8)________ her gentle hands could persuade him (9)______________ way.
He was gone for what seemed to be years,
and his beautiful (10)__________ counted everyday with tears

November 1st was the last time she (11)__________
thinking he'd be (12)____________ home but all she heard was that he'd died.
She was (13)________ he was a brave young man
But it was (14)________ his young lover just, she (15)________ 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 together 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, (17)________ to find that she had fallen
Her untimely death meant that they (18)________ now both alone
Never to dance together (19)__________ or see how old that they had grown

The next day he (20)____________ flowers by the well
burned candles in the (21)______________ 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, (22)________ she had (23)________ for all those years

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

Won't you dance with me tonite
Hold my (25)________ under the moonlight
All we (26)________ is just today
Until my bones just blow away.

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