[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Rings 'round his eyes
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Tracks down his arm
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His fans are confused and his
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friends are alarmed
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His wife doesn't talk
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Hates when he's gone
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Counts every skirt
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in his new entourage
[Chorus]
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And they're all gossamer thin
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Left of the dial, bohemians
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And they dance, tournament style
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Twirl 'round the room, curtsey and smile
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And they sit at his feet,
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read poetry and
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Swoon with each word he speaks
[Harmonica]
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[Verse]
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She likes the new pope
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She's not scared of hell
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They meet once a week
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at a secret motel
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She kisses his neck,
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she plays with his hair
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Her screams sound like pleasure,
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her moans like despair
[Verse]
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And they're spread gossamer thin
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Pushed to the edge, frayed at the ends
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And it's no business of mine
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They can love more than one at a time
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But they're pushing their luck
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Hard but they must
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Risk it all for love
[Harmonica]
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[Bridge]
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Now I walk around in some kind of altered state
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The drink in my hand is starting to shake
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I get used to it if it has to stay this way
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A new bunch of flowers I'll have to arrange
[Harmonica]
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[Verse]
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I don't want to eat
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or get out of bed
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Try to recall
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what the therapist said
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Ego and Id,
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the Essential Self
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You are who you are
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and you are someone else
[Chorus]
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But I'm worn gossamer thin
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Like delicate arch, carved by the wind
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There's a glass psyche at stake
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Throw me a brick, see if it breaks
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'Cause the mind and the brain
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aren't quite the same
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But they both want out of this place
[Outro]
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