| A dry desert ill-wind it blew in that night
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| Came down from the mountain and made wrong from right
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| Makes your skin crawl and jump and itch and feel tight
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| So watch now to who you be talking
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| You just shufflin' to keep some beat
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| When that shrill-wind blew down that darkened street
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| With your cap in your hand and those shoes on your feet
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| You shoulda watched out now which way you’re walking
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| In the shadows they’re hiding
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| By the neon slum-light
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| This way they’re riding
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| Wrong guy, wrong room, wrong night
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| Oh, the future ne’er bothered you none
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| 'Cause you thought you were one with the sun
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| But your shadows out-dance you wherever you run
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| 'Til one day you’re face-down and tremblin'
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| Stinkin', suspected, the spin
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| You’d gone and slipped tricky mass mickey finn
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| And then eye bolted doors
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| Lest the past slippers in
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| And you fear mickey-masses assemblin'
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| Oh, it was search and destroy
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| You thought everything was alright
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| You didn’t stay gold pony-boy
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| Wrong guy, wrong room, wrong night
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| You know your life was just like a movie |
| You wink a Stuyvesant eye
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| You got the moonlight lips |