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The haze of coffin nails and the scent of liquid nerve |
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Swirl through the vacant garden rows |
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The verb coils warm as the check, check, checker |
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Reigns in his ersatz troubadour clothes |
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The ivory is stale as the company |
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Chestnut roots and fifths bled dry |
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The tired minstrel turns out uninspired words |
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Of hope and change and other statist lies |
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Cue the garbled sketch of an overpass arena |
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Where Rooster croons for an audience of two |
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Passing pairs of headlights make for transient marquees |
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And the stars guide his fingers in those rusty twelve-bar blues |
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They start with pilfered wives, then slide to maudlin sighs |
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For his only son who married a machine |
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He flails his head about as his voice grows loud |
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But nothing comes to mind for the turnaround |
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So he says whoa whoa whoa whoa, don't wanna settle down |
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So he says whoa whoa whoa whoa, don't wanna settle down |
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So he says whoa whoa whoa whoa, don't wanna settle down |
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So he says whoa whoa whoa whoa, don't wanna settle down...... |
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don't wanna settle down |
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don't wanna settle down |
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don't wanna settle down...... |
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Left with the slurred advice "don't depend on anyone," |
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I slowly nod, but purge it from my brain, |
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Assure myself that it's too late, it's too late for that |
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And hope to all that's holy that won't change |
