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Bluebird Lyrics
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OVER AND AGAIN
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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She had a black rose tattoo
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On her right hand wrist
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She had the Golden Rule
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Down low on her hip
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And I never loved her
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But, I told her I did
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Over and over again"¦
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I was dreaming of you, she said
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In your sharp black suit, she said
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With your ten dollar words
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And your five dollar shoes
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I bet you still got that cigarette smile
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And your country boy blues
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And you sing it over and over again
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She said you sing it like you mean it
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But, it's just some stupid song
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But little ballerina it's my favorite when you dance along
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Nothing ever sounded better than this scratchy old record
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I'm so happy that you threw it on
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And you just let it spin
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Over and over again
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She pulls the needle off the record, throws her favorite old record on
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Now it's worn out and cracklin'
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She's happy it's her favorite song
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She twirls around and around and around
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Until it's over and gone
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Just to start all over again
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She plays it over and over, over and over again
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She said you sing it like you mean it, but"¦
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The sunlight creeps in
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And shines on the mirror
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The night's passed us by
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And morning is here
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But if you gotta go
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Go safely my dear
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And the record just skips at the end
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Over and over, over and over again
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Just skips"¦
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MORNING CIGARETTES
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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It's a long way to the top with your pockets full of sand
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I saw the Devil on the tele
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I was playing in the band
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Your father's eyes were vacant when they came to take the land
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Baby, what's it gonna take for you to go?
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On a string around his neck
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A leper carries both his hands
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And out over the ocean pilots wonder where to land
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You know we'd probably live forever
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If we just follow the plan
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But, baby what's it gonna take to let it go
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Well, if you find out honey won't you let me know
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Another morning cigarette
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We were born with neither memories nor regret
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And if I called your name
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You'd come from miles away I bet
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You're on your way
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But you're not here just yet
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Now the seven saddest soldiers that had ever lost a war
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You know they shot the sky with rifles in dress blue uniforms
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Singing Lord if you can't keep him
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Send him someplace warm
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Where he doesn't hear the voices anymore
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They got the different colored pills for different times throughout the day
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They got the long term side effects, the world has turned to gray
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The lady at the door just told me God was on his way
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I told her tell Him to stop by and say "hello"
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Cause if he's in town there's some folks that would like to know
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Another morning cigarette"¦
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FORMER QUEEN OF SPAIN
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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Now the rich man and the poor man and the former queen of Spain
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Have all had someone like you, they all have gone away
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And the fact that time will crawl or fly depending on the day
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Makes every kiss a gift and everyone of us a saint
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If that ain't love
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It's close enough
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I heard my angel crying out she'd fallen from God's grace
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She'd had enough, she drank the blood, she couldn't stand the taste
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From there to here's a long way down but baby I can wait
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I might be a fool to catch ya, let ya fall'd just be a waste
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If that ain't love
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It's close enough
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I should have took a breath instead I wired my jaw shut
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I breathed deep through my nose and prayed my clothes'd turned to dust
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Stand naked as a babe the day I finally gave up
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When all I'd say became profane I would not give a f..
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If that ain't love,
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It's close enough
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My eyes wandered round the crash site for to find your missing parts
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I found your head, your perfect legs and your million dollar heart
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To my surprise I caught a cop he was climbing in the car
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I was flashlight blind, jaws of life could not pry us apart
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If that ain't love
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It's a lot of blood
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I woke up from my dream to someone screaming in the road
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He'd carved your name into his chest saying "baby please don't go"
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When I woke you up you whispered wearily and cold
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You said "baby shut the shades it's just someone I used to know,
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It wasn't love. No, not like us."
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But it's close
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The day I lost my sight , I learned to fly, and I flew away
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I'd check on you from time to time just to make sure you're OK
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And all at once you shot me down with a simple turn of phrase
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You said "If you got a secret, you should learn to keep it safe"
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Cause, that ain't love
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But it's close enough
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Now the rich man and the poor man and the former Queen of Spain"¦
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MRS. ROSENTHAL
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}, Joe Firstman
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{Wives Tales Publishing BMI}
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Me and Mrs. Rosenthal
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We rarely wear no clothes
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Well, she calls me up, but not to talk
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I think I'll go and see her tomorrow
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When's she's drinking in the afternoon
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Like she ain't got a thing to do
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Well she told me she's from Baton Rouge
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She singing like the Queen of Virginia
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She good for me like medicine
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She say her momma's Mexican
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Well, I hope she wear that dress again
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I swear at times I can see right through it
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She say she like the way I talk
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She crazy "˜bout my lazy drawl
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She say it mixes well with alcohol
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Baby can I get ya,
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Honey let me get ya
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Darlin' let me fix ya up good
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That's why I'm singing to ya
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Me and Mrs. Rosenthal"¦
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She wears me out
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In the finest way
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She making sure my spine is straight
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I'm singing pardon me you highness
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Little darling how'd you get so good, so good, so good
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That's why I'm singing to ya
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Me and Mrs. Rosenthal"¦
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HIGH SCHOOL DRUGS
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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Hey Julianna you must be tired
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You've been running all day and running all night
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Now the sun's coming up in a big pink sky
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You got the radio on you look just fine
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Now with the radio on, you look just fine
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Hey Julianna I won't leave town
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Just lie right here and I won't make a sound
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When you wake up you can talk me down
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When I'm walking around with my head in the clouds
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Just a walking around with my head in the clouds
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And I'd watch them all float away
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Before I'd leave you
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(Repeat)
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Find myself hummin' the songs you'd sung
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I remember you singing when we were young
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Just driving around on high school drugs
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We had that sunrise kind of love
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Just driving around on high school drugs
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And I'd watch them all float away
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Before I'd leave you"¦
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BOY WITH NO NAME
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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Saw her just sitting there, sunk in her shoulders
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And this kind of thing, will usually blow over'
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But, it ain't blowin' over
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It's a new kind of pain
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She cries for the boy with no name
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We must have missed the last chance oasis
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Free drinks all around
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Sun on our faces
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At just the right time, in just the right places
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She cries for the boy with no name
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She says "Waltz with me Darlin,
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Watch the stars fallin, and know that I came
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When I heard you callin'
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This heartache's a game that nobody wins right away"
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And it's always the same,
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When she cries for the boy with no name.
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Creased in the corner, cards on the table
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Between secrets and dreams, who's got the angle
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And time is a spy that grows blinder each day
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When she cries for the boy with no name
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We must have missed the last chance oasis"¦
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She says "Waltz with me Darlin"¦"
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She cries and she cries and she cries
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She cries all night
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(Repeat)
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SOPHIA
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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Senora, Sophia, circa 1975
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Well, she joined "˜em
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Can't beat "˜em
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Everybody saw how she tried
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They just broke her down
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As we all know they'll do
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And she can joke about it now
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You know she still looks good,
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Lenora, oil painter
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She gave me one to hang on the wall
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Well, she burned out
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Can't blame her
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But, now she never bothers to draw at all, at all, at all
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And, they just broke her down
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But, she was younger then
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And man I hope she works it out
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She's a real good kid
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Never meant to do what she did
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She a real good kid
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Senora, Sophia, circa 1975
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(Repeat)
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YOUR BROTHER, THE POET
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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So, you scratched at the door
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Like a cat in the rain
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And at that I had you
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Dead to rights
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So I looked to be sure
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That your hair was the same
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But something had scared you
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Ghostly white
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So, I lent you a coat
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And it fell off your shoulders
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I laughed at the way
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It swallowed you whole
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Girl, it's so nice to see ya
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How long has it been
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Since Los Angeles has seen any snow
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And your brother's up in New York City
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The city that he loved so well
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And he's plagiarizing promises
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With the ghost of Dylan Thomas
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On the ninth floor of the Chelsea Hotel
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So a penny a thought
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And a nickel a prayer
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If we just save a little
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It'll just get us there
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So give back the nickels
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That I've tossed in the well
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Cause summer in San Francisco
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Is colder than hell
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So I dressed up the truth,
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In a big blue hat,
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And I walked the old girl right down to the service,
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And they all asked about you,
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And the troubles you've had
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And everyone seemed to believe
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You deserved it
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And your brother's up in New York City"¦.
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I looked all around
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And no one could find you
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Just had to remind you
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Of the girl on a train
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She was waving and scared
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She was tangled and fair
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Hair danced in the window
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As the train pulled away
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GLORY HALLELUJAH
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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I "˜m trapped here by the sound
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Of the sleeping soldiers now
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And the cars out on the street
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Well they never screamed so loud
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And the voices in my head
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They whisper true and proud
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And something that they've said has got a whole new meaning now
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Singing glory hallelujah
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How that pain it'll shoot right through ya
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And it sure was fine to knew ya
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But, I'm gone, gone, gone
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Lord I'm feelin' fine
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Drinkin' sacramental wine
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Got me swimming toward the sky
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Til I get caught up in a bind
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Lucky, I built the kids a shrine,
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That we worship all the time
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We just roll the dice and pine
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All the loss of love and crime
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Singing "Glory Hallelujah"¦
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Until we're left with only hollow thoughts
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And memories we've won and lost
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Tied our hands with golden knots
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And went to tell the others"¦ and I told em
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I got a girl at home
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Man, I left her all alone
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She was crying on the phone
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Man, I couldn't bear to listen
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So I screamed "˜til I was tired
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I was full of kerosene and lies
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I told her, I forgot her eyes
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And couldn't give a damn to kiss her
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Singing, glory hallelujah"¦
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(Repeat)
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And we were left with only broken glass,
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And memories of good things past
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Convinced myself that nothing lasts
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And went to tell the others"¦ And I told em
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ADELINE
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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You grabbed my hand
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And held on tight
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We floated down
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Past prying eyes
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And I'd never jumped dear
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From such great heights
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Were you not there, dear Adeline
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You got a voice dear
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That's hard to find
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I hear it call me
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Each time I die
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It brings me back love,
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And you're wearing white
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It's all the time now, dear Adeline
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And we'll wave goodbye to the punch drunk world
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Sugarcoat so sweet, little gum drop girl
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And I'm hopeless to believe in
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But, if you'll just stay a while
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I'll do anything you say
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Dear Adeline
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I caught you smiling
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I asked you why
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You said no reason
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I said baby that's just fine
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Long as you're happy
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Right by my side
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Your little gun shy grin, Adeline
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You'll take no husband
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You'll have no kids
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But you love your whiskey
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And all your friends
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They'll break your back love
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But you'll never cry
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Cause you never was like them
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Dear Adeline
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And we'll waive goodbye to the punch drunk world
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CENTRAL PARK
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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I met the last of the great painters
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Selling grass in Central Park
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He painted all he was afraid of
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"˜Til all the world was art
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And he's a brilliant conversationalist
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His topics ranging near and far
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From the price of tea in China
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To the fastest foreign cars
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He knows a lot about the cars
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But he doesn't have a license
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Doesn't leave the neighborhood
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He doesn't quite know where his wife is
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But he hopes she's doing good
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She ran off to south of Sante Fe
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With some hippie throwing copper
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That was seven years ago today
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Well, he heard she had a daughter
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Well, he heard she had a daughter
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Oughta send her something nice he thought
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A book, a piece of jewelry
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But he don't know what she likes
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And he thinks her name is Julie
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Partially and mostly right
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For her name is Julianna
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Probably pretty, probably shy
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Probably gets it from her momma
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She had a real good looking momma
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Not a single day goes by,
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He doesn't think of her and wonder,
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Why she up and left him for some turquoise wearing sculptor
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But she always liked a dry heat
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She was raised in Arizona
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It's a hundred ninety-five degrees
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At seven in the morning
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Doo do doo, do doo doo, doo do do, doo doo do
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I was walking through the park
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Trying to score a joint or two
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I was probably lying when I said I was a singer,
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Said he saw it in my eyes I was just an in-betweener
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Never stood up to a giant
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Never seen the Mona Lisa
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Never said nothing so defiant, so that anyone'd believe it
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No one's gonna believe it
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Well he hasn't touched a brush
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In long enough he could still wield it
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Saw a lot of things he'd like to paint
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But, he never could quite feel it
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And I've felt the same of song
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When there was no one there to listen
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But, it never was for them
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No, it never was for them
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No, it never was for anyone but me
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He said, I am not a wise man
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But I know you are mistaken
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Cause art is only yours
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Until the second you create it
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And I may have had a wife once
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And I may have been a painter
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But, right now I got these bags man
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And they're fifty bucks an eighth
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That's the going rate
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So, I thought I'd pick one up for ya
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Doo do doo, do do doo, do do doo, do do doo
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I was walking throught the park
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And I was on my way to see ya
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WAR ON WILCOX
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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Where in the world do you come from?
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Where in the world do you go?
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Who dropped the dime on good reverend Jerome?
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He just took what he felt he was owed
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You rolled dice last night with Coretta
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Rolled twice and won me the world
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But you'd give it away if I let ya
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Crazy I tell ya, make me laugh out loud
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Like that time that I caught you in Austin,
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And you were carrying ten times your weight,
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I loved you as quick as I lost you
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But cost ain't nothing to a rich man like me,
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It don't mean a thing
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I found heaven in a three sided story,
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Heard my story in clear blue sky
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I got this brand new tattoo just this morning
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Covered your name up
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I melted my thumb like a candle,
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Sealed a letter that I'll never send
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I wondered who taught you, the art of a scandal
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Is 99 5/16 what you put in, and we both put in.
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You lived through the war out on Wilcox
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Got bored with the billionaire's tie
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You carried your teeth in a pillbox,
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Those nice pearly whites,
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Let me see you smile like one more time.
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Where in world"¦
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BLUEBIRD
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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I was a bluebird
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Lost and alone
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Searching for shelter
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Far from my home
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Struggling to fly
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But you mended my wing
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And you're sweeter than springtime
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I love how you'd sing
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You know the song
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To play when I'm gone
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No longer weary,
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Finally Home
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Watching from heaven
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With fond recollection
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My sisters and brethren
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Have all gathered round
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To help me to lay
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My burden down
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I was a preacher
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Robbed of my faith
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Surrounded by devils
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Suspicious of saints
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Drawn to temptation
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Drowning in sin
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But I found my salvation
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When you sang again
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You know the song"¦
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Bluebird flying home
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(Repeat)
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NEIGHBORHOOD
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Brian Wright {Suspension Bridge Publishing ASCAP}
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Where I live now
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Is a little red house
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Down on Wilcox and Fountain
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Los Angeles
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I sleep through the sirens
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Police lullabies
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And I ride
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My little black bicycle
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Down to Bogie's
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And drag queen Cecilia
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She's the last true believer
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She's walking the Boulevard
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She's handing out leaflets
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That nobody reads
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Cause they know all the secrets
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And the don't need a reason
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To be, so scared
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And this ain't no kind of scene, babe
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Why in the world would you follow me here
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And this ain't no kind of scene
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Why in the world would you follow me here
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You followed me here
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My friends and my worries
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They got old in a hurry
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But no less deserving
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A fond farewell
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And bellbottomed cheapskates
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They're all asleep in the heat wave
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And they wake up
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From their dreams
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Of the sixties
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Find that nothing has changed
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Baby nothing has changed
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And this ain't no kind of scene
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Why in the world would you follow me here
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And you believe what you wanna believe
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And this ain't no kind of scene
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And I hang out with singers
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Bunch of glass jawed bleeders
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Whose skin
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Is as thin
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As a leaf
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And there's actors
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And dancers
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And more second chancers
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