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[Verse 1]
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I went to every city where I met no one
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And I stood in every barroom where nothing had begun
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There were fights in every alley way
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And protests panting until dawn
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Pleading someone listen to them
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Belch their empty songs
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And the pirates dressed in new blue jeans
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Sold tickets in the square I heard that
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Somewhere something happened once
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But never quite occurred
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Stagecoaches sent limp lovers passed
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I watched the lure sink then raise
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And dangle like a lullaby
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But the children ran away
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[Verse 2]
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I saw twenty flowers baring
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Twenty colors in a line
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Each dancing to a cadence
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Keeping them there 'til they die
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As lonely dreamers peddled their schemes
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To loners looking for anything
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Take me where you want to
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Just don't let me see the strings
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The waterfront reeked of new perfume
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Where strangers strangely drifted by
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For morning would be coming soon
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While unwilling goes the night
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And I in my fading raincoat wondered
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Mothered by a million fears
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How ancient are these memories
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That have always left me here
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[Verse 3]
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I remember serpent skylines rising
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Swimming in infinity
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And all the poisoned people
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Submerged in obscurity
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As if to reach up was enough
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To beg eternity for more
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I can't remember waking up
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Or what my dreams were for
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I am useless to the wild earth
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So sings the bowels of every place
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I used to map the laughter
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Though I could never find its face
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And anywhere that I may go
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My judgment roars its restless bells
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I never knew and shall never know
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A worse place than myself