| As I walk through the streets of my new city
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| My back feeling much better, I suppose
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| I’ve reclaimed the use of my imagination
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| For better or for worse, I’ve yet to know
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| But I always knew you’d be the one to understand me,
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| I guess that’s why it took so long to get things right.
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| While suddenly I’m lost
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| On my street
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| On my block
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| Oh why, Oh why
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| Oh why haven’t you been there for me?
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| Can’t you see, I’m losing my mind this time?
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| This time i think it’s for real, I can see
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| All the tree tops turning red
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| The beggars near bodegas grin at me
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| I think they want something
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| I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe
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| And be calm.
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| Be calm.
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| I know you feel like you are breaking down.
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| Well I know that it gets so hard sometimes.
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| Be calm.
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| I’m scared that everyone is out to get me.
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| «These days before you speak to me you pause.»
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| «I always see you looking out your window.»
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| «After all, you lost your band, you left your mom.»
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| Now every single crack, every penny that I pass,
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| Says I should either leave or pick it up But with every single buck I’ve made
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| I’m saddled with bad luck that came
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| The moment I was baptized
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| Or when I found out one day I’m gonna die
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| If only I could find my people or my place in life
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| A when they come a’carolin'
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| So loud, so bright, the theremin
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| Will lead us to a chorus
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| Where we’ll all rejoice and sing a song that goes:
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| Oh be calm.
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| Be calm.
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| I know you feel like you are breaking down.
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| Oh I know that it gets so hard sometimes,
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| Be calm.
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| Take it from me, I’ve been there a thousand times.
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| You hate your pulse because it thinks you’re still alive
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| And everything’s wrong
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| It just gets so hard sometimes
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| Be calm.
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| I don’t remember much that night,
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| Just walking, thinking fondly of you
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| Thinking how the worst is yet to come
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| When from that street corner came a song
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| And I can’t remember the man,
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| The panhandler or his melody.
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| The words exchanged had far exceeded any change I’d given thee.
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| Oh be calm.
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| Be calm.
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| I know you feel like you are breaking down.
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| I know that it gets so hard sometimes,
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| Be calm.
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| Take it from me, I’ve been there a thousand times.
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| You hate your pulse because it still thinks you’re alive
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| And everything’s wrong
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| It just gets so hard sometimes
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| Be calm.
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| Be calm. |