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The One That Got Away
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Tom Waits
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Well, the gigolo's jumpin' salty
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Ain't no trade out on the streets
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Half past the unlucky
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And the hawk's a front row seat
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Dressed in full orchestration
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Stage door Johnny's got to pay
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And sent him home
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Talking 'bout the one that got away
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Well, could've been on Easy Street
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Could've been a wheel
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With irons in the fire
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And all them business deals
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But the last of the big time losers
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Shouted before he drove away
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I'll be right back as soon as I crack
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The one that got away
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The ambulance drivers, they don't give a shit
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They just want to get off work
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And the short stop
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And the victim already gone berserk
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And the shroud tailor measures him
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For a deep six holiday
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The stiff is froze, the case is closed
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On the one that got away
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Now Jim Crow's directing traffic
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With them cemetery blues
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With them peculiar looking trousers
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Them old Italian shoes
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And a wooden kimono was all ready
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To drop in San Francisco Bay
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But he's mumbling something
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All about the one that got away
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Costello was the champion
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At the St.Moritz Hotel
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And the best this side of Fairfax
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Reliable sources tell
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But his reputation is at large
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And he's at Ben Frank's every day
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Waiting for the one that got away
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He's got a snake skin sport shirt
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And he looks like Vincent Price
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With a little piece of chicken
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And he's carving off a slice
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But someone tipped her off
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She'll be doing a Houdini now any day
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She shook his hustle
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A Greyhound bus'll take the one that got away
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Andre is at the piano
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Behind the Ivar in the sewers
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With a buck a shot for pop tunes
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And a fin for guided tours
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He could've been in Casablanca
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He stood in line out there all day
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Now he's spilling whiskey
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And learning songs about a one that got away
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Well, I've lost my equilibrium
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And my car keys and my pride
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The tattoo parlor's warm
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And so I hustle there inside
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And the grinding of the buzz-saw
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"What you want that thing to say?"
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I says, "Just don't misspell her name
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Buddy, she's the one that got away"
Tom Waits - "God's Away On Business"
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