| Jan lays down and wrestles in her sleep.
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| Moonlight spills on comic books
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| 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
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| 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,
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| 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
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| And happy with her full time job.
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| Am I alive or thoughts that drift away?
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| Does summer come for everyone?
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| Can humans do what prophets say?
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| If I die before I learn to speak,
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| Can money pay for all the days I lived awake
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| But half asleep?
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| I’ve been downhearted, baby,
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| Ever since the day we met.
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| A life is time, they teach you growing up.
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| Seconds ticking killed us all
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| 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
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| And bathe yourself in zebra flesh.
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| I’ve been downhearted, baby,
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| Ever since the day we met. |