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Jeffrey Lewis
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When I got to the golden city
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Most of the gold was gone
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By that time I had some questions
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So I flagged down a race-car bum
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He said "Sonny I don't know where it's going,
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But I can show you where it all comes from"
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And he mopped his red forehead and he pointed
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Straight into the setting sun
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And people let me tell you
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That what I then did saw
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It sent such a shock to my system
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That I almost fell down dead on the floor
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'cause the sun had a big chunk missing
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About 24 carats wide
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And I stared into that hole in the golden sun
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And you want to know what I saw inside?
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I saw a giant toothpick factory
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And it made my very soul feel sick
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'cause when I say I saw a toothpick factory
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I mean I saw a factory made out of toothpicks
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And that factory was a-hoppin' and a-jumpin'
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And a-roaring and letting off steam
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And you know that that ain't all now
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Let me tell you what else I seen
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Behind the factory was a giant mutant monster
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With sixty-seven separate tails
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And each one was a-wiggling and a-waving
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And each one as long as twenty-three whales
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And at the tip of each towering tendrils
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Were a dozen tiny pencils of lead
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And each word they wrote was in a different language
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And when you put them all together they said
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"You who have arms to wrestle
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And you who have wars to fight
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And you who have chips on your shoulders
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Must now line up and stand to my right
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But you who are meek and lawful
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And you who are soft and kind
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If you don't want to see something awful
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Run and get yourself a rock to hide behind
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'cause these colours are just a signal
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And these colours are just about to fade"
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And when I read those words I shivered
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And I saw exactl what the factory made
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Out of a little doorway
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At the end of a conveyor belt
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In the centre of a ring of fire
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Half the size of a postage stamp
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Were a million household items
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Packed into a metal Dukes Of Hazzard lunchbox
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And they were all shut and sealed and fastened
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With a gold combination lock
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And just about every minute
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Another one came right out of the hole
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And crashed to the earth beneath it
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And landed in a lump of coal
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And every poor coal miner
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Who happened on a golden stone
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Was made both richer and wiser
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And had to murder someone to get it home
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And then I had to close my eyelids
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And I had to turn my face away
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The race-car man was crying
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And I heard him angrily say
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"I suppose you want a glass of water
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I suppose you want to eat something warm"
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I said, "Yes but not with you sir"
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And I ran off to be alone
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And I sat under a bridge and I wondered
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What exactly all of these things were
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And I found I could not yet remember
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What I thought they were before
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I just want something even
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Something that won't cause no fuss
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The sun can go about its business
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And leave the rest to us
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And we'll call it even
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And we'll call it gold
Jeffrey Lewis - Broken, Broken, Broken, ...
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