| You’re a broken-hearted party girl
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| Your skirt’s on fire, your hair’s uncurled
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| Your dancing days are at an end
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| Yeah, you’ve got no one to call your friend
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| All you’ve got left is a silhouette,
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| An empty bed, and a cheap Corvette
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| You’re a long way from your sweet sixteen
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| You need some stonewashed jeans
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| And a time machine
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| To take you back
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| To that railroad track
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| Where you first took flight
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| In the morning light
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| So take me back
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| To that first romance
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| When you made your stand
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| You were hand-in-hand
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| With the black-eyed angel of the evening star
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| When you came to the city in your cheap perfume,
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| And you ran through the room,
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| But you grew up soon
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| Always dressed like a killer in the afternoon
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| Sipping warm champagne from a silver spoon
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| In the night you would travel in your lover’s car
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| With your jewels so bright, like a shooting star
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| But your nightmares must have caught up with you
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| And all the pills and the prophets couldn’t get you through
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| To take you back
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| To that railroad track
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| Where you first took flight
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| In the morning light
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| So take me back
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| To that first romance
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| When you made your stand
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| You were hand-in-hand
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| With the black-eyed angel of the evening star
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| So take me back
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| You were found on the ground in a lonely town
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| At the end of the world, in a dressing gown
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| Your hair was on fire, your shoes were misplaced
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| On your face was a trace of a distant place
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| It’s a long way home back to Wichita
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| Where they put you back together,
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| Filled your head with straw
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| Now all you’ve got left is a silhouette,
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| And a cheap Corvette, but girl, you ain’t dead yet
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| So take me back
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| To that railroad track
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| Where you first took flight
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| In the morning light
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| So take me back
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| To that first romance
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| When you made your stand
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| You were hand-in-hand
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| With the black-eyed angel of the evening star |