| Aw it’s dark outside
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| I’ve been trying to get a ride
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| While my body waits, my body waits
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| America warm my face
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| I’ve been trying to turn the page
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| Once I was a little boy, staring at my shoes
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| You came along and found me in the chicken coop
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| But time takes over, I can’t say when
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| Time takes over, may we do it again
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| Take me to the beachhead let’s go over
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| All of those rocks at the end of the road
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| Take me down to main street with no clothes on with our bare feet on the
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| Painted yellow lines
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| With our shadows far behind us
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| Broke into that summer school and fooled around on the infirmary cot
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| And we can be like all those fairies, making their rain angels in the eddies
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| And I have no expectation, just an adolescent heart
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| Aw it’s dark outside
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| I’ve been trying to get a ride
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| While my body waits, my body waits
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| America warm my face
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| I’ve been trying to turn the page
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| Once I was a little boy, staring at my shoes
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| You came along and found me in the chicken coop
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| But time takes over, I can’t say when
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| Time takes over, may we do it again
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| Take me to the beachhead let’s go over
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| All of those rocks at the end of the road
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| Help me down the seawall let’s find Marci
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| See if she got that
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| Invitation to the movie
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| The one where the kids break out of juvie
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| And then by their own admission
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| They go and turn themselves all in
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| Just as they get there to the station
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| The young one wheels and begs the pavement
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| For brother speed to make arrangements with the spirits of the night
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| Take me to the race track let’s go bet on
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| Aw. |
| the one that no one expects to win and
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| Let’s bet on the skinny horse
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| He will surely try the hardest to come in first
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| I bet you for the winner they put on some kind of fancy dinner
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| Let’s be like those Philadelphia sisters
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| That have prayed straight for a hundred years
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| And I have no expectation, just to be here in the present
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| And behold you for a second before it all goes away
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| Before it all goes away
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| On those painted yellow lines
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| With our shadows far behind us
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| Broke into that summer school and fooled around on the infirmary cot
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| And we can be like all those fairies, making their rain angels in the eddies
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| And I have no expectation, just an adolescent heart |