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She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts |
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Said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars |
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So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar |
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To think of them, all alone in the dark |
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So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen |
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She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean |
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Gave me anything I wanted, oh, the generosity |
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I took all that I could, it was free |
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Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds just splattered paint |
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It's a room I'm renovating, it's a name I got to change |
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If I get out of California, I'm going back to my home state |
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To tell them all that I made a mistake |
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And I keep looking for that blindfold faith, lighting candles to a cynical saint |
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Who wants the last laugh at the fly trapped in the windowsill tape |
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You can go right out your mind trying to escape |
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From the panicked paradox of day to day |
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If you can't understand something, then it's best to be afraid |
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The whole world, it loves you if you are a chic chameleon |
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Intersecting circles, she could hang with anyone |
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But when conducting business, she would lie about where she's from |
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Saying, "Life is how it is, not how it was" |
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I learned to listen, felt like I was back at school |
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She'd talk forever about the phases of the moon |
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Saying, "Everything's a cycle, you've got to let it come to you |
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And when it does, you will know what to do" |
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Without even knowing, I guess I took up her advice |
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Painted her front door, it seemed a suitable goodbye |
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It's not that often but I think of her sometimes |
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Just something quaint, a couple ships in the night |
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And they keep moving at a glacial pace, turning circles in a memory maze |
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I made a new cast of the death mask that's gonna cover my face |
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I had to change the combination to the safe |
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Hide it all behind a wall, let people wait |
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And never trust a heart that's so bent, it can't break |
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