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Gather around you people now to the tale that I tell |
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About the last time my friend moved he decided to move to hell |
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They call it Creslawn California down there USA |
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For God and his wisdom burned it down one beautiful day |
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He could not sleep for restlessness, downtown he went |
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Where he ran into some rednecks looking to sexually experiment |
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Me and this man had a band once and we were called The Shapes |
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You probably never heard of us and that really is okay |
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We drank and we threw up sometimes we practiced and played |
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Our drummer couldn't figure out whether he was straight or he was gay |
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We went on tour within walking distance of our house |
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Maybe that is why no one knew what our sound was all about |
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Thats why I say gather around you people now |
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Get your money out to lend |
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We're all leaving town for good again |
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For good again |
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We drink up at the high school by the stairs on the hill |
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Everything looked beautiful with enough booze and pills |
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It was nice to know that no one in their right mind would drop by |
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Just bitch about some bull now and the lights lit up the sky |
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You'd never understand the things my friend Eric put us through |
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He had this Powepoint presentation about this girl he want to do |
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Well now we were all such assholes but who was keeping score |
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Most the people who still hate us they don't live here anymore |
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Thank God I don't live here anymore |
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Thats why I say gather around you people now |
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Get your money out to lend |
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We're all leaving town for good again |
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For good again |
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We lived in the house and it was down on Lincoln street |
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We payed the bills now and they turned out the heat |
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I lived up in the attic right above the bathroom |
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When I could pay my rent-man illegal drugs thats exactly what I do |
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We barbecued in that alley until pa poisoned me with raw meat |
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Sometimes I come home at 4 AM and go face down in the streets |
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It was a low level existence thats what you proper people'd say |
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But I wrote songs in that attic that I now get paid to play |
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So if you don't like people who live in attics now might be the time to say |
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Cuz' everybody who is anybody, in my opinion, |
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at one time lived in somebody's hallway |
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Thats why I say gather around you people now |
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Get your money out to lend |
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We're all leaving town for good again |
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For good again |
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Thats why I say gather around you people now |
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Get your money out to lend |
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We're all leaving town for good again |
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For good again (3x) |