[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Houdini’s still stuck in that Doctorow book
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The one place he can never escape
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And your voice on the phone is like one of those paintings
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Where everything loses its shape
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And the girl across the street, she's as light on her feet
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As sunlight bouncing off chrome
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And I'm sad, sad, sad, sad, and far away from home
[Verse 2]
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Once I was standing on a Dublin street corner
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I heard a fiddler pierce the veil of illusion
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And once I got plastered at my best friend’s bar mitzvah
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Once I lived in perfect confusion
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Oh and once I was eleven, once I was just atoms
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Once I was a hilltop in Rome
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Now I’m sad, sad, sad, sad, and far away from home
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Oh lie, dee-dee, de-de-dee, dee-dee, de-de-dee-dee-dee-dee, de-de-dee, de-de-dee
[Verse 3]
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Now a kiss is just a flower that a bee could return from
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And do his little dance at the hive
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Perhaps it's worth mentioning, as I write this song down
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I am the happiest fucker alive
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For the seashore cries out for the painter to paint it
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And the wind whips the water into foam
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And I'm sad, sad, sad, sad, and far away from home
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Yes I am sad, sad, sad, sad, and I’m far away from home
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So lie, dee-dee, de-de-dee, dee-dee, de-de-dee-dee-dee-dee, de-de-dee, de-de-dee