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(Some mumbling?) |
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Pretty soon the hippies of today, will be the squares of tomorrow |
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It was the echoing voices of the old ones |
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Through thick steeled forests and over scorched earth |
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Always just out of reach |
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A herder of crows judged my every footstep |
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My bones were frozen |
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Penniless and entirely out of breath |
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I washed my beautiful hands in the black market dog water trough |
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But through it all the real stick in my spokes |
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Was the torment of my dreams |
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I fought of sleep with both fists and sometimes fire |
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With no more then a blow gun I made from an exhausted pen |
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I shot the stars out of the sky |
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When each one fell sparkling to the ground |
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I made wishes that never came true |
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Apparitions of angels with angry eyes |
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Appeared at each new moon |
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My own ghost be gain whispering |
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Trees died if I tried to climb them |
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The decision was made for me |
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To begin interpreting real life just as I would nightmares |
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(More mumbling?) |
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Buck 65, Buck 65, Buck 65, Buck 65, Buck 65, Buck 65 |
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Watching an already dead world vanish |
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We the banished and outlawed wander |
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Hither and yonder |
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Like dogs gone hungry |
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Funky and angry and sometimes ugly |
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Drums like drugs have turned us to scavengers |
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Pathfinders, addicts and mathematicians |
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Practicing is a black magic |
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We make music from used up junk and bad luck dreams |
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Liars and losers |
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Emus and aardvarks |
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Gypsies and pint thieves |
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Peddlers, Card Sharks |
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All of us fortune tellers home in the forest |
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Hard core, building a cardboard fortress |
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Fore ward fast and backwards blindfolded |
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Trying to find gold buried in flood planes |
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Covered in blood stains |
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Fly bites and egg yolk |
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Running away with one of my legs broke |
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Sometimes it?s lonesome |
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Traveling homeless |
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Not knowing where you?re going |
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Riding the railroads |
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Pickups and sailboats |
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Most of the loco-motives |
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Once we decide to see some of the country side |
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Working with circus |
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Performers and cut-throats |
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Discussions with perfectionists, perverts and poets |
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Haven?t you ever heard of the? |
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1200 hoboes? |
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We aren?t vampires dressed like rock stars |
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We build campfires and ride box-cars |
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Town to town, we just write songs |
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And plus we stay up like all night long |
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Cuz we aren?t vampires dressed like rock stars |
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We build campfires and ride box-cars |
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Town to town, we just write songs |
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And plus we stay up like all night long |
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20 some years is a long walk |
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Even if its not in a straight line |
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You see a lot of things in the distance |
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You know what they say about great minds |
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You and I think about the same things |
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Dream the same dreams |
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Play the same games |
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We started out in the same place |
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Believe it or not we got the same names |
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Everything happens for a good cause |
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Whether it be victory or loss |
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And the road may turn into a run way |
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But you?ll know what to do someday |
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Trust me I?ve seen it all before |
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I?ve climbed to the tops of the tallest trees |
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To get away from the deep water |
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To feel the touch of the smallest breeze |
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You?ll find a girl with a low voice |
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Who holds the world in her bare hands |
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You?ll fall in love you?ll have no choice |
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Once you are given a fair chance |
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For the first time you will sleep well |
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Take a deep breath |
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See the sun shine |
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Hold on to her for dear life |
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And then watch the whole world unwind |
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Ask her to show you some magic |
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And I guarantee that she will say yes |
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Tell her you?ve seen forever and |
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You?ll be together not a day less |
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Just know until that time comes |
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And after you cross that first mile |
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That the hardest part is behind you |
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And all the pain will be worthwhile |
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(From storm clouds, Come angels, Let pain give you pleasure |
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From dirt roads, to flowers, when faith can be measured |
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From storm clouds, Come angels, Let pain give you pleasure |
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From dirt roads, To Flowers, when faith can be measured. |
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I know a man who was born with his heart on the outside |
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Every mans worst fear he also had heavy hands |
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He couldn?t touch his lovers face |
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He couldn?t hold a baby |
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He would never desert them |
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But he was worried he would hurt them maybe |
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Mad at the world his face turned hot pink |
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The best he could do was just try to not think |
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But he was to bothered |
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So he would only try rarely |
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He read the last page of every book in the library |
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He lacked the charisma |
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Of a true revolutionary crime fighter |
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Would try to write but kept breaking his typewriter |
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He preaches manifesto militant radical |
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Was diligent but his greatest mistakes were gramatical |
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If he only spent more time rehearsing and preparing |
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There wouldn?t have to be so much cursing and swearing |
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Eyes on fire |
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His volume was blistering |
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No one had taught him about the power of whispering |
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He is dynamite |
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Blows kisses |
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Eats dirt |
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His mouth of a volcano |
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He is a t-shirt |
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He stands on stilts |
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But doesn?t stand for funny stuff |
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Ask me |
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He just hasn?t been around the sun enough |
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He paints self-portraits |
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With a roller |
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Only eats corn |
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And then tries to sell his own soul |
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On a street corner |
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He always remembers everyone?s numbers |
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And sometimes cries into his own cumbersome hands |
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(Scratching... Mixes?) |
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Sometimes dumb crimes blow my mind |
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And lord knows I try to close my eyes |
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But it happens so fast |
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I keep my eye on the ball |
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But still I never asked to be a fly on the wall |
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And like |
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Sometimes dumb crimes blow my mind |
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And lord knows I try to close my eyes |
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But it happens so fast |
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I keep my eye on the ball |
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But still I never asked to be a fly on the wall |
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Red beginning to end and measured sideways |
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I?ve traveled the length of your desert highways |
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Been under your bed |
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And slept in ditches |
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I saw your scars |
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Was kept in stitches |
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To keep from crying |
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I?m trying not to pay attention |
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But as I may have mentioned |
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I?m being held hostage |
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I?m lost and exhausted |
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I want to go home now |
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But I?m to far gone |
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And I don?t even know how |
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The silent knight and tarnished armor |
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Charming and harmful |
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The charma chameleon |
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Might get violent |
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Dancing with shadows |
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And playing charades |
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It?s the miscible plan |
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Of the invisible man |
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And what?s it like |
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Living life |
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You may ask |
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Standing on the other side |
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A two way glass |
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Well it?s not what it?s cracked up to be |
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I?ll tell you that much |
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You can look |
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But you can?t touch |
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Like |
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Sometimes dumb crimes blow my mind |
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And lord knows I try to close my eyes |
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But it happens so fast |
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I keep my eye on the ball |
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But still I never asked to be a fly on the wall |
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And like |
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Sometimes dumb crimes blow my mind |
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And lord knows I try to close my eyes |
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But it happens so fast |
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I keep my eye on the ball |
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But still I never asked to be a fly on the wall |
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All I want to do |
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Is go fly a kite |
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Or take a hike |
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And try and keep myself |
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From taking a flying leap |
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There?s ringing in my ears |
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Especially at night |
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Collidescopic visions of a cocaine cat fight |
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People play parlor games |
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Behind closed doors |
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Secrets are sacred |
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When nobody knows yours |
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But somebody does |
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You forgot about the bottom feeders |
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The dirty rotten cheaters |
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And all of us stock breeders |
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Sometimes dumb crimes blow my mind |
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And lord knows I try to close my eyes |
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But it happens so fast |
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I keep my eye on the ball |
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But still I never asked to be a fly on the wall |
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And like |
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Sometimes dumb crimes blow my mind |
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And lord knows I try to close my eyes |
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But it happens so fast |
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I keep my eye on the ball |
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But still I never asked to be a fly on the wall |