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Chestnut Street Revisited
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John Mellencamp
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Written by John Mellencamp
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Well I've lived and breathed and been disbelieved
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In these small town streets too long
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I've held nothin' but aces and been many places
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And hung on the corner 'til dawn
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But my hands have been tied
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To a life I've been denied
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I'm just a small town boy bein' used like a toy
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And workin' a nine to five
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Well I worked like a fool 'til after done with high school
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Just to form a rock and rollin' band
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But the streets were exploding and my life I was decoding
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Had a dream I couldn't understand
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And I work it out everyday
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For no fun and very little pay
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I'm just a smal town boy bein' used like a toy
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And doin' what other people say
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Well I've drooled and fooled and been ridiculed
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For havin' dreams just above my reach
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And I've lied and died and tried suicide
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For all the things you people wanna preach
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But I always had to turn the other way
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When I heard those homefolks say
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(They say) You're just a small town boy bein' used like a toy
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And livin' on a day to day
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But you must believe that when I walk down the tracks
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All those young girls fall back and say
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There goes that sleek young silhouette
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He don't drive no Corvette
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but he stings just like a Sting Ray
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And that's my only redemption in this house of detention
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That keeps me from simply blowin' it all away
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'Cause when I walk down the street in the hot summer heat
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I say, God don't take this away
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Well by the end of the day, all the kids would go play
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And I'd come staggering back home
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With a dream in my hand and a master plan
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That wouldn't leave my mind alone
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Well I compromised all my schemes
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And I fluctuated all my dreams
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I'm just a small town boy bein' used like a toy
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And nothing is like it really seems
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But what a fool I must seem to have all these dreams
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And try to live them all through
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It's like a slap in your face, with a mercurochrome taste
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When the dream is long overdue
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And it seems kinda strange that nobody came
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To the game that I have put myself through
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And when I walk down the street in the hot summer heat
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I say, what the hell can I do
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Well I keep hopin' and wishin' that these romantic positions
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Gonna help me hide all this pain
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And all the hurt that I've felt underneath my leather studded belt
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Of not findin' my fortune and fame
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Some day I'll blow 'em away with the things that I sing and I say
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I'm just a small town boy bein' used like a toy
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And waitin' on my pay day
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I'm just a small town boy bein' used like a toy
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And waitin' on my pay day
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