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Steel Strings
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Marshall Crenshaw
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(peter case)
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Well all those nights they hit rock bottom
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The songs they sang, well, we forgot 'em
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You could hear them play with shaky hands
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Guitars strung up with rubber bands
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Singing do you want a man of steel?
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Or do you want a man that's real
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They used to play in the courts of kings
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Now they're only made of steel when they're
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On steel strings
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They used to be on every schoolgirl's wall
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And they never dropped the beat at all
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They could make it soar, they could make it hot
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Once they got started they could never stop
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Singing, do you want a man of steel or
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Do you want a man that's real?
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Some of them hide when the doorbell rings
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They're only made of steel when they're on steel strings
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Playing the man on steel strings
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Were you expecting maybe superman?
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The best they do is the best they can
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The manager's doing time in jail (applause)
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And the pink cadillac is up for sale
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Singing do you want a man of steel
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Or do you want a man that's real
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They try their hands at a thousand things
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But they're only made of steel
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When they're on steel strings
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