| I was walking around, just a face in the crowd
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| Trying to keep myself out of the rain
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| Saw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam crown
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| Wondered if I might end up the same
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| There's a man out on the corner
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| Singing old songs about change
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| Everybody got their cross to bare, these days
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| She came looking for some shelter
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| With a suitcase full of dreams
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| To a motel room on the boulevard
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| Guess she's trying to be James Dean
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| She's seen all the disciples and all the "wanna be's"
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| No one wants to be themselves these days
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| Still there's nothing to hold on to but these days...
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| These days - the stars seem out of reach
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| These days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
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| These days - are fast, love don't last in this graceless age
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| There ain't nobody left but us these days
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| Jimmy shoes busted both his legs
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| Trying to learn to fly
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| From a second story window
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| he just jumped and closed his eyes
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| His momma said he was crazy
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| he said momma "I've got to try"
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| Don't you know that all my heroes died
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| And I guess I'd rather die than fade away
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| These days - the stars seem out of reach
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| But these days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
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| These days are fast, love don't lasts-in this graceless age
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| Even innocence has caught the midnight train
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| And there ain't nobody left but us these days
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| I know Rome's still burning
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| Though the times have changed
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| This world keeps turning round
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| And round and round and round
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| These days
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| These days - the stars seem out of reach
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| But these days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
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| These days are fast, love don't lasts-in this graceless age
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| Even innocence has caught the midnight train
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| And there ain't nobody left but us these days
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| These days - the stars seem out of reach
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| These days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
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| These days - are fast, nothing lasts
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| There ain't no time to waste
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| There ain't nobody left to take the blame
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| There ain't nobody left but us these days |