| Darkness falls like a black leather jacket and melts into the sidewalk like a sleeping drunk.
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| In the streets, the wind throws yesterday’s headlines around.
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| Another night comes and goes.
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| So, for awhile back then there was someplace to go.
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| Somewhere more home than a house.
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| A family of choice, not an accident, but sometimes as soon as something gets
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| started it’s over.
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| Now the days are much shorter and the people from the good part of town all
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| come around, but the something is missing even though there’s more there now.
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| I shrug off my attempts to explain how a torn t-shirt made it all danger again.
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| I don’t like flashbacks in movies.
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| I like the story to proceed.
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| I don’t like talking about the old days except if it tells where the future
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| will lead.
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| So we take a walk down this haunted hall or stumble through a shattered recall.
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| I know there’s nothing to relive, it’s just the shape of it all.
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| I don’t want it different.
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| Don’t want it again but value for value, now I’d never want it to end.
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| You think of the old friends and faces no more to be seen.
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| You think how much fun a line-up would mean.
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| And once that tape starts playing, it’s too hard to make it rewind.
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| That one special face takes over your mind.
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| That end of the run.
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| We almost won.
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| The end of the run.
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| We had our fun.
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| The end of the run.
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| I knew it then.
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| It won’t be back again.
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| We stood in the cold night, though we should be warm, in the back of the lot
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| with me in your arms.
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| The sun was falling.
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| The grey rain was pouring.
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| The cars were all dirty and slow.
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| We both had our kiss and, out of the depths and darkness, with my eyes closed I still see you fine.
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| Cause that was the season we make our dreams come true.
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| There was no limit to what we could do.
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| The end of the run.
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| We almost won.
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| The end of the run.
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| We had our fun.
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| The end of the run.
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| I knew it then.
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| He won’t be back again.
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| Once that tape starts playing it’s too hard to make it rewind.
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| With my eyes closed I still see you fine.
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| That was the season we make our dreams come true.
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| There was no limit to what we could do.
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| The end of the run.
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| We almost won.
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| The end of the run.
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| We had our fun.
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| The end of the run.
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| I knew it then.
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| He won’t be back again. |