| A man walks down the street
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| He says why am I soft in the middle now
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| Why am I soft in the middle
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| The rest of my life is so hard
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| I need a photo-opportunity
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| I want a shot at redemption
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| Don’t want to end up a cartoon
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| In a cartoon graveyard
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| Bonedigger Bonedigger
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| Dogs in the moonlight
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| Far away my well-lit door
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| Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
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| Get these mutts away from me You know I don’t find this stuff amusing anymore
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| If you’ll be my bodyguard
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| I can be your long lost pal
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| I can call you Betty
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| And Betty when you call me You call me Al
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| A man walks down the street
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| He says why am I short of attention
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| Got a short little span of attention
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| And wo my nights are so long
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| Where’s my wife and family
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| What if I die here
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| Who’ll be my role-model
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| Now that my role-model is Gone Gone
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| He ducked back down the alley
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| With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
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| All along along
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| There were incidents and accidents
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| There were hints and allegations
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| If you’ll be my bodyguard
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| I can be your long lost pal
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| I can call you Betty
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| And Betty when you call me You call me Al Call me Al
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| A man walks down the street
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| It’s a street in a strange world
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| Maybe it’s the Third World
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| Maybe it’s his first time around
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| He doesn’t speak the language
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| He holds no currency
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| He is a foreign man
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| He is surrounded by the sound
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| The sound
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| Cattle in the marketplace
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| Scatterlings and orphanages
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| He looks around, around
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| He sees angels in the architecture
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| Spinning in infinity
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| He says Amen! |
| and Hallelujah!
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| If you’ll be my bodyguard
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| I can be your long lost pal
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| I can call you Betty
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| And Betty when you call me You call me Al Call me Al |