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Skinny Lou you used to be that I couldn't see you sideways |
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Skinny Lou many times I wish I could be like you |
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turn away from the bay in my own ways |
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Just like you do Skinny Lou |
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There's a pull I can feel like gravity, grabbing me sideways |
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I bought a railway station ticket to take me out of this town |
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Leave me somewhere standing with the rain on my face again and again |
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Oh, is it true you used to run with constellations |
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And the rock-a-billy boys will never see |
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Your artistry of taking your whole world in without taking it all on |
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Because you know it will be your skinny shoulder it rests upon |
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Skinny Lou I've a mind to sew a tapestry this time |
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For it feels like gold in the pocket of a coat |
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it would be easy to forget you ever had |
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to have it we do, me and you |
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Oh, is it true you used to run with constellations |
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And the rock-a-billy boys will never see |
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Your artistry of taking taking your whole world in without taking it all on |
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For you know it will be your skinny shoulder it rests upon |
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Yes you know it will be your skinny shoulders it rests upon |
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Oh you know it will be your skinny shoulders it rests upon |