| It’s just a figure of speech
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| I can’t claim to know your geography
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| But oh, I have all the clues.
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| Shout down all the Jim Crow laws
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| You can’t have an effect if you’ve never had a cause
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| It’s true, and I don’t know the rules.
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| And all the time we’ve been talking.
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| I’ve been thinking.
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| Oh what a waste of my time, I’ve been going out of my mind
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| What was I thinking coming here tonight
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| Said a little too much, had a little too much.
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| Knock back your Montgomery Jack
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| And don’t say to me that you wouldn’t understand
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| It’s true, I’m «barely out of school».
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| Attack and take it all back
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| And make it all up, ignoring all the facts
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| It’s true, and I don’t know the rules.
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| And all the time we’ve been talking
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| I’ve been thinking.
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| Oh what a waste of my time, I’ve been going out of my mind
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| What was I thinking coming here tonight
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| Said a little too much, had a little too much.
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| Isn’t it a shame?
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| Isn’t it a shame?
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| Isn’t it a shame?
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| Isn’t it a shame?
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| Oh what a waste of my time, I’ve been going out of my mind
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| What was I thinking coming here tonight
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| Said a little too much, had a little too much. |