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Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast |
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Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat |
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Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight |
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Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night |
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Morning brings the tourists, peering eyes and rubber necks |
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To catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck |
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It's a mass of irony for all the world to see |
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It's the nation's capital, it's |
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Washington |
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D.C. It's the nation's capital |
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It's the nation's capital |
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It's the nation's capital, it's |
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Washington |
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D.C. (mmmm-hmmm) |
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May not have the glitter or the glamour of |
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L.A. May not have the history or the intrigue of |
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Pompeii But when it comes to making music, and sure enough making news |
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People who just don't make sense and people making do |
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Seems a ball of contradictions, pulling different ways |
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Between the folks who come and go, and one's who've got to stay |
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It's a mass of irony for all the world to see |
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It's the nation's capital, it's |
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Washington |
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D.C. It's the nation's capital |
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It's the nation's capital |
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It's the nation's capital, it's |
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Washington |
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D.C. Seems to me, it's still in light time people knifed up on 14th street |
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Makes me feel it's always the right time for them people showing up and coming clean |
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Did make the one seem kind of numb |
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It's the nation's capital |
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It's the nation's capital |
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It's the nation's capital, it's |
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Washington |
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D.C. (mmmm-hmmm) |
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Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast |
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Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat |
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Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight |
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Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night |
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Morning come and bring the tourists, craning rubber necks |
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Catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck |
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It's a mass of irony for all the world to see |
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It's the nation's capital, it's |
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Washington |
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D.C. It's the nation's capital |
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It's the nation's capital |
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It's the nation's capital, it's |
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Washington |
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D.C. It's the nation's capital |
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Got you feeling capital |
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Punishment is capital in |
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Washington |
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D.C. |
