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Fallen Star
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Phil Ochs
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I was taking my pleasure in a bar I called home
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When an old friend appeared at the door
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He was filled with bad whiskey, so he didn't see me
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As he stumbled the sawdust filled floor
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He was famous for filling our halls with his songs
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Till the words and the music ran dry
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Soon the backstage buffoons and their parasite friends
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Chased a new shooting star through the sky
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(Chorus) Falling Star you know who you are
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You toyed with the notion of failure
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Like kids play with bugs in a jar
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You wouldn't believe it could happen to you
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But this time you've fallen to far.
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Once the news of his comeback was filling the trades
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So the critics came loading their guns
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Oh I watched how they cursed him, nuzzling their drinks
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He was finished before he'd begun
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(Chorus) Falling Star you know who you are
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You were buying a round for our table
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When they brought out the feathers and tar
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You laughed when I said it could happen to you
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You've already fallen too far.
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Falling asleep at the table
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Mumbling your prayers to the floor
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Paying the bill, we bid you farewell
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And quietly slipped out the door
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Oh the night quickly passed in an alchohol haze
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That fire don't ever burn long
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But the lesson I learned in the bar room that night
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Still burns in the words of this song
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(Chorus) Falling Star you know who you are
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You toyed with the notion of failure
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like kids play with bugs in a jar
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You wouldn't believe it could happen to you
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but this time you've fallen too far
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this time you've fallen too far
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