| Last night we tried to watch Manchester by the Sea
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| For the second time we tried to watch it, we fell asleep
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| But last week, we watched Palo Alto starring James Franco
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| We got through it, now that was a good one
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| Today is my day of listening
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| Today is my day of not speaking
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| Today is my day of writing
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| Today is my day of reading
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| Today is my day of reflecting
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| Today is my day of silently thinking
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| My quiet meditative day
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| My cat is on her green quilt on the coffee table looking over the bay
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| And the rain pours and it pours and it pours
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| It’s a season of rain
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| But now it’s a new night
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| But now it’s another night
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| And I’m back to work singing
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| While the musicians are bringing
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| Lovely music to my singing
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| And at the parts where I am speaking
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| Player setting for me, it’s beautiful automatically
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| How can it not be?
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| How can it not be?
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| Eeney meeney miney moe
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| Catch a tiger by its toe
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| If he hollers, let him go
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| Eeney meeney miney moe
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| And now begins my time of quiet
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| Now is my time to let the music do the talking
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| To let the piano and the drums and the hollow-bodied guitar do everything
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| It’s time for me to pause and to just breathe, to let the music be
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| Now I feel it’s time to be singing
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| The same good thoughts to sing, before they heal
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| To wish for all countries to stop bombing
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| To wish for the starving to be eating
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| To remember being young and catching snakes in the field
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| I walked to North Beach and back silently
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| Grossly, where nobody knows me
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| Where nobody stops me
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| Over the Trieste to get an iced tea
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| Where nobody knows me
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| Well I wasn’t there, the world turned without me
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| Nobody knows me
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| A girl walks into Trieste, all curvy
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| Every guy’s head turns, she’s got a big ass
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| She walks away and an old guy says
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| «We'll see if those jeans still fit her in ten years»
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| Guys with guitars were playing «Hotel California»
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| When I got to Trieste, the corner of Grant and Vallejo
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| By my own eyes I got the last sweet roll of villo
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| And I listened to them play as I took the sandwich from the bag
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| It was sitting on my lap
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| It was beautiful and I don’t even like the Eagles
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| They remind me of the most painful and boring corners of suburban life
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| Backseat of my mom’s car, bored crazy crazy bored
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| On the way to my aunt and uncle’s house
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| They killed my pet pig out there
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| They said they didn’t know he was my pet pig
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| They said they cooked him up
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| They said they didn’t know the pig was my pet Topo Gigio
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| They cooked him up with the farmhouse
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| And I cried and I cried and I cried like a baby at my aunt and uncle’s farmhouse
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| If you’re a songwriter and you’re having dry spell
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| I don’t want to hear about writer’s block, that sounds like a living hell
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| If you can’t find the poetry, I suggest you walk around the block
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| If you can’t find it, then write about when you were a kid and you got the
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| chicken pox
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| If you grow marijuana, then write about your marijuana crop
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| If you like animals, then write about the ocelot
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| And if it’s raining outside, then write about the raindrops
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| I still smell the Ohio farm pig smell melding with the smell of the corn crops
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| I’m a person who, knock on wood, hasn’t suffered a lot of writer’s block
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| For better, for worse, this is my lot in life
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| I’m not afraid to lose my spot in the cafeteria
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| With the Tiffanys and the jocks
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| Were you afraid to sit alone in the cafeteria?
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| I’m not, for to be an artist is to not be a conformist
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| That is the meaning for me, of being a true artist
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| I’m a sparrow fluttering around, unafraid of the bows and arrows darting around
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| I’m a sparrow, not afraid to take an arrow
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| And to bleed like Pablo Picasso
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| Did Lou Reed care what people thought?
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| Did Muhammad Ali care about what lessons
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| The United States thought he needed to be taught?
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| I look at the cactus in the coffee shop
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| I look at the succulents in the Spanish clay pot
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| That cactus might have more left in it that I got
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| I walk around around around around around around around the block
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| I see poetry in the trash in the parking lot
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| I see the strip club and I see the neon signs all lit up
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| I see young girls hanging outside with their juicy thick butts |
| I ain’t no deadbeat pup
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| And these guys playing guitar, piano, and drums sure are not
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| Listen to them play, listen to them play
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| Now is my time to stop singing
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| To let the piano and the guitar and the drums do the talking
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| And now me, myself, and I and me
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| Are going to jump into this bacchanal with some vocal harmony
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| Okay, now it’s time for me to start talking again
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| Because 59 Tomahawk missiles just launched to Syria
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| And the mother of all missiles just went down in Afghanistan
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| And North Korea and the USA are making a stand
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| The tension is escalating, the tension is escalating
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| Watch out leaders, how you know one of your own
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| Isn’t going to sneak up behind you with a wire
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| And choke you out, and choke you out
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| And choke you out, and choke you out
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| And choke you out, and choke you out
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| And choke you out, and choke you out
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| And choke you out, and choke you out
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| And stomp you out, and stomp you out
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| And pull you out, and pull you out
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| This is the sound of chaos, this is the sound of war
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| This is the sound of the wounded and the suffering
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| And the buildings burning and collapsing
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| And the cities being bombed
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| And the men, women, and children are being tortured
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| And leaders will be assassinated
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| This is the sound of war, this is the sound of war |