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Fools Gold on Main Street
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Simon Joyner
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Fool's gold on Main St. from stop signs to dangling telephones
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Children delivering newspapers, all the grotesque and the hum-drum
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I used not to worry but now it's all I do
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I used to be in a hurry but now I'm dragging both my boots
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Wondering how to get from Main to Meadow
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From fisherman to fish to butcher, the struggle is never ending
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You can put your life down on paper but it's not the same as swimming
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I dropped a hint and you were kind enough to retrieve it
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You asked me where the trouble was and you were sweet enough to believe it
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But it was such a sad lie I had to whisper
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What happened to Blake and Eric, Douglas, Phil and Amanda?
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What happened to Jennifer the Great, who loved me before anyone?
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They're flying into the ground or walking high around my city
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While my head is just some town you wouldn't want to visit
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It's crowded and the people all look ghostly
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Fool's gold on Main St., shuffling through orphan trash
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The birds search for the sun at their feet in every crumb of shattered glass
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I slipped on holy blinders as if I could turn my body in
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If I'm guilty when I despair, will hope make me innocent again
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Or will it only get me through this winter?
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There are neon invitations where shameless billboards babble
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You belong to nothing at all now since your pockets have unraveled
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Your soul is just a drop of the dream we collected with pans in the stream
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The streets of heaven are lined with it and the streets of heaven are clean
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But everything you'll ever touch is dirty
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