| Drop me off at 66, emerging from the wilderness
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| The feel of freedom overwhelmed me
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| I wandered lonely, looking up
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| Thinking of the space that I took up
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| In my relationship with all apparent dimensions
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| I cut across the Central Park, 45 hours of light and dark
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| I had to make the most of them and
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| The problem’s just like in the films with frozen
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| Given in a glaze of haze of snow and smog and my bad eyesight so
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| I killed an hour by going to see John Lennon’s house
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| And where he got away from me and you and nothing’s real
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| I took a cab from west to east and men did wrong
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| I walked and slipped and slide across the ice and feel the trees then
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| I bumped into a girl I knew, wearing black and singing songs
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| We both knew were about me and a deeper found regret
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| The time is wrong, I’d set it fast
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| She said she knew I left her up in Harlem after crushing cigarettes
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| OK
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| I want to be alone with you
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| I want to do the things you do
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| You always do
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| Feeling deeply shaken and then breaking my own rule
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| I went into a tiki bar on 1st Avenue
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| Writing in a notebook and being very English
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| I attracted the attentions of a real couple
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| They asked me if I’d join them to society engagements
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| So I answered that I would and then we split
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| They lived around the corner
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| I heard something about a dress and plastic costumes and then something about a
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| Duchess
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| The shop was such a trip, I spent an hour flipping taxis
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| Got big shout with a man called Captain Bodybag
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| OK
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| I want to be alone with you
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| I want to do the things you do
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| You always do
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| Comedians, comedians, comedians, comedians
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| Comedians try and making me laugh
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| But I’ve never been to see one
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| And I don’t think that I will again
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| I’d rather drink or dance and try and laugh
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| Taking in another bar and feeling very fragile
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| I had visions in the house from Eyes Wide Shut
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| But like a lost bike penny in a city where there’s many
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| We met up and sang and talked about the fugs so
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| I figured I was in and we’d move on and we’d take on the Bowery
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| Many close collisions, we got a cab
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| We drove into the darkness, New York City in the distance
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| I bet ghosts had started peeling back the layers
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| OK
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| I want to be alone with you
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| I want to do the things you do
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| You always do
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| Sank into the seat and felt the fabric tried to eat
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| My body and my head and seem that I’d been schooled
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| And then, I thought whatever
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| That I’d I had a healthy inning
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| I just lied there thinking to myself it looked cool so
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| I wish I had the nerve, I said I wish I had the nerve
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| To shake this ambient 'n appreciate this bridge but
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| Peace on you I said
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| I hope you get some when you’re dead
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| And you just sand said it is what it is
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| I want to be alone with you
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| I want to do the things you do
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| You always do |