Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth

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Jan lays down and wrestles in her sleep
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Moonlight spills on comic books And superstars in magazines
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An old friend calls and tells us where to meet
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Her plane takes off from Baltimore And touches down on Bourbon Street

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We sit outside and argue all night long
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About a god we've never seen But never fails to side with me
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Sunday comes and all the papers say
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Ma Teresa's joined the mob And happy with her full time job

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Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do

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Am I alive or thoughts that drift away?
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Does summer come for everyone? Can humans do as prophets say?
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And if I die before I learn to speak
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Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?

PIANO INTERLUDE

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A life is time, they teach us growing up
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The seconds ticking killed us all A million years before the fall
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You ride the waves and don't ask where they go
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You swim like lions through the crest And bathe yourself on zebra flesh

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Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do

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I've been downhearted baby, I've been downhearted baby,
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Ever since the day we met,    Ever since the day we met