| If I only could deceive you
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| Forgetting the game
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| Every time I try to leave you
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| You laugh just the same
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| 'Cause my wheels never touch the road
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| And the jumble of lies we told
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| Just returns to my back to weigh me down…
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| We lay cards upon the table
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| The backs of our hands
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| And I swear I like your people
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| The boys in the band
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| Reminiscences gone astray
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| Coming back to enjoy the fray
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| In a tangle of night and daylight sounds…
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| All completeness in the morning
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| Asleep on your side
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| I’ll be waking up the crewmen
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| Banana-boat ride
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| She responds like a limousine
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| Brought alive on the silent screen
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| To the shuddering breath of yesterday…
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| There’s the succour of the needy
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| Incredible scenes
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| I’ll believe you in the future
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| Your life and death dreams
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| As the cavalry of despair
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| Takes a stand in the lady’s hair
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| For the favour of making sweet sixteen…
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| You make my life and times
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| A book of bluesy Saturdays
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| And I have to chose… |