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Ghost Mice
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So there we were in the heart
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Where everything that we know got its start
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Then it all fell apart
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Well I guess that's what you get
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When you spread yourself too thin
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But we had bigger fish to fry
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Like findin' a place to sleep at night
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I'd bought a slice of pizza
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Just to try and kill some time
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And for a minute everything was fine
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We had a number in our notebook
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But it was way too late to call
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It was well after midnight
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When our train passed through the city walls
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We didn't know this girl at all
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So we got out our travel book
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To read about the neighborhood
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Said it wasn't very good
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But it felt alright to me
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All I wanted to do was go to sleep
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So we walked around the corner
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And we found a cheap motel
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We knew we couldn't afford it
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But we said, "Oh well"
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When you've been on the train all day
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You're in a big city in a new country
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You're real tired and it's late
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Sometimes it's better just to pay
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That's the way it goes
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Sometimes you know
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It'd be okay
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And after all we were in Rome
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Well it had been a long time
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Since we had slept inside
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We woke up late the next day
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And the sun was shining bright
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We paid our bill, we cried, we went outside
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They got their bread and circus
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And I guess so do we
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But they got theirs for free
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I think that we're gettin' ripped off
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We must destroy all empires at any cost
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When you're standin' in a temple
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Of a long-gone God it seems so simple
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Everybody dies, no matter who you are
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From far enough away our sun is just another star
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And the statue of Moses that we saw
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Had horns on his head and was eight feet tall
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Maybe that was the case,
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No it's not our place to say
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Maybe some things just don't translate
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We called up this girl
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Who had ordered a CD
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She was the first from Italy
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When we asked for hospitality
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She said we could stay at her parents' place
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They were so sweet to us
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It was so nice to meet a punk
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She took good care of you and me
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She bought us soy ice cream
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Her mom cooked dinner every night
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It was so hard for us to leave
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And the stray dogs of Pompey
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Were our guides that day
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They became our friends,
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We were a lot like them
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They taught us many things
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And all they wanted was some food for their pay
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Then we went to the coast
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Where the roads are wound so close
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And the buses bounce from side-to-side
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We thought that we might die
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We couldn't find a place to sleep at all that night
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The city filled with scooters
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Held so many mysteries
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I saw the weirdest thing there
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That I think I'll ever see
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It was a pizza topped with octopus,
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A whole one on each slice
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But I got my dinner there
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It was a pizza topped with fries
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And Italy was nice
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Made us feel right at home
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Our money's in the fountain
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And we will return to Rome
Ghost Mice - The Devil & My Family
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