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Walking around the happiest place in the world |
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And all I do is wonder if your hair is still curled |
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South of Brownsville, Texas, South of Miami Beach |
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All it means to me is that you're further out of reach |
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Every where is sand and sun, blue sky water too |
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I need you |
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Spanish moss is hanging and you find a polished stone |
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Pocket it for luck and then you walk on alone |
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They'll rent you a bicycle with the tires blown |
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They'll carve you up a blackened fish and strip it to the bone |
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A slave ship just came in, I've been talking to the crew |
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I need you |
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Well in that house Hemingway is boxing in the back |
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I go to the library and check out all the facts |
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Nowadays it's hard to write a line, my own thoughts bore me |
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I found me an island kid who says he'll do it for me |
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I'm wiping all my tears away so no one has a clue |
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That I need you |
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The last plane out of Saigon did not know that it was |
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Every man in prison thinks he's locked up for a cause |
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I need something to do , my violin needs to sound |
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I'm going to see if Ernest wants to go a couple rounds |
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Sometimes you gotta get lost till you wind up someplace new |
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I need you |
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Some bird's flapping in the road on some crazy madman's string |
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Something's messed up with his wing, something's messed up with my everything |
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So here's the truth at last, I tell you, Hemingway is dead |
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And everybody wants to find a steak that's slightly red |
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I thought I could escape myself by just not getting dressed |
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I thought I could escape you by coming to Key West |
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Sometimes you get lost and you don't find something new |
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I need you |
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I need you |
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I need you |