| Leaving my coat at the Greyhound station
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| Raising my arms in supplication
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| Making some money, spending some money
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| Drinking Pepsi, just walking around
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| Making people hate me, making people laugh
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| Fear of drowning in a shallow bath
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| Feeling under-dressed in the cold midwest
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| Kissing my grandmother goodbye
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| Watching the crocuses bloom and fade
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| Easter bonnet from an old parade
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| Exchanging pleasantries under pleasant trees
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| Over griefs and apéritifs
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| These are the days of the years of my life
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| American summer and it’s all a breeze
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| Buck-tooth girls in skin-tight jeans
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| The mastiff heels, the accounts are solvent
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| I’m crooning in the open West
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| Meeting my baby at a greasy spoon
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| Sitting alone in the Rembrandt room
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| Walking in the shade where lilies weep
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| Under clouds of marzipan
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| Walking in the dark of Monument Valley
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| Stay cats in a narrow alley
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| The song was weird, but still they cheered
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| It’s scrambled eggs and solitaire
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| These are the days of the years of my life
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| Mopping up gore from the butcher’s floor
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| Feeling clean as a new drug store
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| Singing loud idiotic songs
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| In the blue, blue mountains walking along
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| Night-long drives on the wild edges
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| Apparitions in the neighbor’s hedges
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| Sinus drips and Battleship
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| Putting ashes in a rushing stream
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| Watching a city turn into sea
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| Standing in water up to the knee
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| Missing my stop on a city bus
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| In the land of propaganda
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| These are the days of the years of my life
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| Watching birds on a drowsy sea
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| Sittin' in the dark of a family tree
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| Funeral flowers and paperwork
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| Drowning my dreams in mountain streams
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| Standing tall in a cap and gown
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| And a house that’s since torn down
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| It’s summer in the Catskills now
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| Leisure classes in the mountain passes
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| The jaws of life and the jaws of death
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| Hearing secrets in a dying breath
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| In a black four-door sedan
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| Down the road to the end of the world
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| These are the days of the years of my life
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| These are the days of the years of my life |