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The screen door slams
Mary′s dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch As the radio plays Roy Orbison singing for the lonely Hey that′s me and I want you only Don′t turn me home again I just can′t face myself alone again Don′t run back inside darling you know just what I′m here for So you′re scared and you′re thinking That maybe we ain′t that young anymore Show a little faith, there′s magic in the night You ain′t a beauty, but hey you′re alright Oh and that′s alright with me You can hide `neath your covers And study your pain Make crosses from your lovers Throw roses in the rain Waste your summer praying in vain For a savior to rise from these streets Well now I′m no hero That′s understood All the redemption I can offer, girl Is beneath this dirty hood With a chance to make it good somehow Hey what else can we do now Except roll down the window And let the wind blow back your hair Well the night′s busting open These two lanes will take us anywhere We got one last chance to make it real To trade in these wings on some wheels Climb in back Heaven′s waiting on down the tracks Oh oh come take my hand Riding out tonight to case the promised land Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road Lying out there like a killer in the sun Hey I know it′s late we can make it if we run Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold Thunder Road Well I got this guitar And I learned how to make it talk And my car′s out back If you′re ready to take that long walk >From your front porch to my front seat The door′s open but the ride it ain′t free And I know you′re lonely For words that I ain′t spoken But tonight we′ll be free All the promises′ll be broken There were ghosts in the eyes Of all the boys you sent away They haunt this dusty beach road In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets They scream your name at night in the street Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet And in the lonely cool before dawn You hear their engines roaring on But when you get to the porch they′re gone On the wind, so Mary climb in It′s a town full of losers And I′m pulling out of here to win. |
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| 2. |
| 5:25 |
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In the summer that I was baptized
my father held me to his side As they put me to the water he said how on that day I cried We were prisoners of love, a love in chains He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain With the same hot blood burning in our veins Adam raised a Cain All of the old faces ask you why you're back They fit you with position and the keys to your daddy's Cadillac In the darkness of your room your mother calls you by your true name You remember the faces, the places, the names You know it's never over it's relentless as the rain Adam raised a Cain In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames Adam raised a Cain Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream Adam raised a Cain |
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| 3. |
| 6:22 |
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Princess cards she sends me with her regards
barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted To her Cheshire smile. I′ll stand on file, she′s all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back you wouldn′t even give me time to cover my tracks. You said, ″Here′s your mirror and your ball and jacks″. But they′re not what I came for, and I′m sure you see that too I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency and your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak reveal yourself all now to me girl while you′ve got the strength to speak Cause they′re waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask. And don′t call for your surgeon even he says it′s too late It′s not your lungs this time, it′s your heart that holds your fate Don′t give me money, honey, I don′t want it back you and your pony face and your union jack well take your local joker and teach him how to act I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked Didn′t you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive you could laugh and cry in a single sound. And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god? You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach Remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek That ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leech. But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way like a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way We were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore So you, left to find a better reason than the one we were living for and it′s not that nursery mouth I came back for It′s not the way you′re stretched out on the floor cause I′ve broken all your windows and I′ve rammed through all your doors And who am I to ask you to lick my sores? And you should know that′s true... I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency and your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free |
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| 4. |
| 6:30 |
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Sandy the fireworks are hailin′ over Little Eden tonight
Forcin′ a light into all those stoney faces left stranded on this warm July Down in town the circuit′s full with switchblade lovers so fast, so shiny, so sharp As the wizards play down on Pinball Way on the boardwalk way past dark And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like Latin lovers on the shore Chasin′ all them silly New York virgins by the score Sandy, the aurora is risin′ behind us This pier lights our carnival life forever Love me tonight for I may never see you again Hey Sandy girl, my baby Now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for sleeping on the beach all night Them boys in their high heels, ah Sandy, their skins are so white And me I just got tired of hangin′ in them dusty arcades bangin′ them pleasure machines Chasin′ the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where they promise to unsnap their jeans And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag I got on it last night and my shirt got caught And they kept me spinnin′ I didn′t think I′d ever get off Oh Sandy, the aurora is risin′ behind us This pier lights our carnival life on the water Runnin′, laughin′ ′neath the boardwalk with the boss′s daughter I remember, Sandy girl, now baby Sandy, that waitress I was seeing lost her desire for me I spoke with her last night, she said she won′t set themselves on fire for me anymore She worked that joint under the boardwalk, she was always the girl you saw boppin′ down on the beach with the radio The kids say last night she was dressed like a star in one of them cheap little seaside bars, and I saw her parked with Loverboy out on the Kokomo Did you hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin′ fortunes better than they do For me this boardwalk life for me is through You ought to quit this scene too Sandy, the aurora is rising behind us This pier lights our carnival life forever Oh love me tonight and I promise I′ll love you forever |
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| 5. |
| 3:35 |
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Where the river runs to black
I take the schoolbooks from your pack Plastics, wire and your kiss The breath of eternity on your lips In the crowded marketplace I drift from face to face I hold my breath and close my eyes I hold my breath and close my eyes And I wait for paradise And I wait for paradise The Virginia hills have gone to brown Another day, another sun goin' down I visit you in another dream I visit you in another dream I reach and feel your hair Your smell lingers in the air I brush your cheek with my fingertips I taste the void upon your lips And I wait for paradise And I wait for paradise I search for you on the other side Where the river runs clean and wide Up to my heart the water rise Up to my heart the water rise I sink 'neath the water cool and clear Drifting down, I disappear I see you on the other side I search for the peace in your eyes But they're as empty as paradise They're as empty as paradise I break above the waves I feel the sun upon my face |
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| 6. |
| 3:13 |
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Springsteen
I'm driving in my car, I turn on the radio I'm pulling you close, you just say no You say you don't like it but, girl, I know you're a liar 'Cause when we kiss, mmm, fire. Late at night, I'm takin' you home I whisper stay, you say you wanna be alone You say you don't need me but, baby, I know you're a liar 'Cause when we kiss, mmm, fire, fire. You had a hold on me right from the start In a grip so tight I can't tear it apart My nerves all jumpin' actin' like a fool Your kisses they burn but your heart stays cool. Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah You can bet their love, they didn't deny Your words say split but your words they lie When we kiss, oh, fire, fire. You had a hold on me right from the start In a grip so tight I can't tear it apart My nerves all jumpin' actin' like a fool Your kisses they burn but your heart stays cool. Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah You can bet their love, they didn't deny Your words say split but your words they lie When we kiss, oh, fire, fire, fire, fire ... |
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| 7. |
| 7:57 |
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I stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masquerade
I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said "Sit down" I stood up. Ooh-ooh growin' up The flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to wing I had a jukebox graduate for first mate, she couldn't sail but she sure could sing, I pushed B-52 and bombed `em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on standing I broke all the rules, strafed my old high school, never once gave thought to landing, I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said "Come down" I threw up Ooh-ooh growin' up I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know it's really hard to hold your breath. I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared, I was the cosmic kid in full costume dress Well, my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little place in the stars And I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car I hid in the mother breast of the crowd but when they said "Pull down" I pulled up Ooh-ooh growin' up. Ooh-ooh growin' up |
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| 8. |
| 4:38 |
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I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra
I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova I could walk like Brando right into the sun Then dance just like a casanova With my blackjack and jacket and hair slicked sweet Silver star studs on my duds like a Harley in heat When I strut down the street I could feel its heartbeat The sisters fell back and said, "Don't that man look pretty" The cripple on the corner cried out, "Nickels for your pity" Them gasoline boys downtown sure talk gritty It's so hard to be a saint in the city I was the king of the alley, mama, I could talk some trash I was the prince of the paupers crowned downtown at the beggar's bash I was the pimp's main prophet I kept everything cool Just a backstreet gambler with the luck to lose And when the heat came down and it was left on the ground The devil appeared like Jesus through the steam in the street Showing me a hand I knew even the cops couldn't beat I felt his hot breath on my neck as I dove into the heat It's so hard to be a saint when you're just a boy out on the street And the sages of the subway sit just like the living dead As the tracks clack out the rhythm their eyes fixed straight ahead They ride the line of balance and hold on by just a thread But it's too hot in these tunnels you can get hit up by the heat You get up to get out at your next stop but they push you back down in your seat Your heart starts beating faster as you struggle to your feet Then you're out of that hole and back up on the street And them South Side sisters sure look pretty The cripple on the corner cries out, "Nickels for your pity" Them downtown boys, they sure talk gritty It's so hard to be a saint in the city ... |
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| 9. |
| 7:28 |
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One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets With a love so hard and filled with defeat Running for our lives at night on them backstreets Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets We swore we'd live forever on the backstreets we take it together Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the darkness Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it seemed You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry It don't matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets |
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| 10. |
| 9:59 |
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Spread out now Rosie doctor come cut loose her mama′s reins
You know playin′ blind man′s bluff is a little baby′s game You pick up Little Dynamite I′m gonna pick up Little Gun And together we′re gonna go out tonight and make that highway run You don′t have to call me lieutenant Rosie and I don′t want to be your son The only lover I′m ever gonna need′s your soft sweet little girl′s tongue and Rosie you′re the one Dynamite′s in the belfry playin′ with the bats Little Gun′s downtown in front of Woolworth′s tryin′ out his attitude on all the cats Papa′s on the corner waitin′ for the bus Mama she′s home in the window waitin′ up for us She′ll be there in that chair when they wrestle her upstairs `cause you know we ain′t gonna come I ain′t here for business, I′m only here for fun Rosalita jump a little lighter, senorita come sit by my fire I just want to be your lover ain′t no liar, Rosalita you′re my stone desire Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knees Willie you know they′re gonna be there Ah sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billie they′ll be comin′ up for air We′re gonna play some pool skip some school act real cool Stay out all night it′s gonna feel alright Rosie come out tonight, Rosie come out tonight Windows are for cheaters chimneys for the poor Closets are for hangers winners use the door Rosalita jump a little... Now I know your mama she don′t like me `cause I play in a rock and roll band And I know your daddy he don′t dig me but he never did understand Papa lowered the boom he locked you in your room I′m comin′ to lend a hand I′m comin′ to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man Someday we′ll look back on this and it will all seem funny But now you′re sad your mama′s mad And your papa says he knows that I don′t have any money Tell him this is last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance Because a record company Rosie just gave me a big advance My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy My machine she′s a dud out stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey Hold on tight stay up all night `cause Rosie I′m comin′ on strong By the time we meet the morning light I will hold you in my arms I know a pretty little place in Southern California down San Diego way There′s a little cafe where they play guitars all night and day You can hear them in the back room strummin′ So hold tight baby `cause don′t you know daddy′s comin′ Rosalita jump a little... |
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If there's something you need
That you just don't have Well just don't sit there Feeling bad Come on now get up Try and understand Just raise your hand Baby here I am You know I'm standing in line I wanna give you my love Please let me try Come on now get up Try and understand |
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| 2:51 |
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Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back Like a river that don′t know where it′s flowing I took a wrong turn and I just kept going (Chorus) Everybody′s got a hungry heart Everybody′s got a hungry heart Lay down your money and you play your part Everybody′s got a hungry heart I met her in a Kingstown bar We fell in love I knew it had to end We took what we had and we ripped it apart Now here I am down in Kingstone again (Chorus) Everybody needs a place to rest Everybody wants to have a home Don′t make no difference what nobody says Ain′t nobody like to be alone (Chorus) |
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| 3:05 |
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I went out walking the other day
Seen a little girl crying along the way She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again Someday your crying, girl, will end And you'll find once again Two hearts are better than one Two hearts, girl, get the job done Two hearts are better than one Once I spent my time playing tough guy scenes But I was living in a world of childish dreams Someday these childish dreams must end To become a man and grow up to dream again I believe in the end Two hearts are better than one Two hearts, girl, get the job done Two hearts are better than one Sometimes it might seem like it was planned For you to roam empty hearted through this land Though the world turns you hard and cold There's one thing, mister, that I know That's if you think your heart is stone And that you're rough enough to whip this world alone Alone, buddy, there ain't no peace of mind That's why I'll keep searching 'til I find My special one Two hearts are better than one Two hearts, girl, get the job done Two hearts are better than one I believe Two hearts are better than one Two hearts, girl, get the job done Two hearts are better than one |
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Well, there she sits buddy justa gleaming in the sun
There to greet a working man when his day is done I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up your engines let 'em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur James Dean in that Mercury '49 Junior Johnson runnin' thru the woods of Caroline Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans-Am All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines let 'em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur Hey, little girlie in the blue jeans so tight Drivin' alone through the Wisconsin night You're my last love baby you're my last chance Don't let 'em take me to the Cadillac Ranch Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Pulled up to my house today Came and took my little girl away |
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| 3:51 |
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Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall
Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it A salesman turned around said, "boy, you break that thing you bought it" CHORUS You can look but you better not touch boy You can look but you better not touch boy Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy You can look but you better not, no you better not, no you better not touch Well I came home from work and I switched on Channel 5 There was a pretty little girly lookin' straight into my eyes Well I watched as she wiggled back and forth across the screen She didn't get me excited she just made me feel mean CHORUS Well I called up Dirty Annie on the telephone I took her out to the drive-in just to get her alone I found a lover's rendezvous, the music low, set to park I heard a tappin' on the window and a voice in the dark CHORUS |
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| 5:10 |
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Well Papa, go to bed now, it's getting late
Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow 'Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us There's a darkness in this town that's got us too But they can't touch me now and you can't touch me now They ain't gonna do to me what I watched them do to you So say goodbye, it's Independence Day It's Independence Day all down the line Just say goodbye, it's Independence Day It's Independence Day this time Now, I don't know what it always was with us We chose the words and yeah, we drew the lines There was just no way this house could hold the two of us I guess that we were just too much of the same kind Well say goodbye, it's Independence Day It's Independence Day, all boys must run away So say goodbye, it's Independence Day All men must make their way, come Independence Day Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie's joint And the highway, she's deserted clear down to Breaker's Point There's a lot of people leaving town now, leaving their friends, their homes At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone Well Papa, go to bed now, it's getting late Nothing we can say can change anything now Because there's just different people coming down here now and they see things in different ways And soon everything we've known will just be swept away So say goodbye, it's Independence Day Papa, now I know the things you wanted that you could not say But won't you just say goodbye, it's Independence Day I swear I never meant to take those things away |
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| 5:15 |
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Lights out tonight
trouble in the heartland Got a head-on collision smashin′ in my guts, man I′m caught in a cross fire that I don′t understand But there′s one thing I know for sure girl I don′t give a damn For the same old played out scenes I don′t give a damn For just the in betweens Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul I want control right now talk about a dream Try to make it real you wake up in the night With a fear so real Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don′t come Well, don′t waste your time waiting (Chorus) Badlands, you gotta live it everyday Let the broken hearts stand As the price you′ve gotta pay We′ll keep pushin′ till it′s understood and these badlands start treating us good Workin′ in the fields till you get your back burned Workin′ `neath the wheel till you get your facts learned Baby I got my facts learned real good right now You better get it straight darling Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king And a king ain′t satisfied till he rules everything I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got Well I believe in the love that you gave me I believe in the love that you gave me I believe in the faith that could save me I believe in the hope and I pray that some day It may raise me above these (Chorus) mmmmmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmmm For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain′t no sin to be glad you′re alive I wanna find one face that ain′t looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands (Chorus) |
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| 5:18 |
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Take me now baby here as I am
Pull me close try and understand Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe Love is the banquet on which we feed Come on now try and understand The way I feel when I'm in your hands Take my hand, come under cover They can't hurt you now They can't hurt you now They can't hurt you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us I hear my doubt when I'm alone Love is a ring, the telephone Love is an angel disguised as lust Here in our bed 'til the morning comes Come on now try and understand The way I feel under your command Take my hand as the sun descends They can't touch you now They can't touch you now They can't touch you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us With love we sleep With doubt the vicious circle Turns and burns Without you I cannot live Forgive, me now The time has come to take the moment and They can't hurt us now They can't hurt us now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us |
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| 6. |
| 3:09 |
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In Candy's room
There are pictures of her heroes on the wall To get to Candy's room You gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall Strangers from the city Call my baby's number, and they bring her toys When I come knocking, she smiles pretty She knows I wanna be Candy's boy There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face A sadness all her own from which no man can keep Candy safe We kiss, my heart's rushes through my brain And the blood rushes in my veins The fire rushes towards the sky And I go driving Driving deep into the night I go driving deep into the light In Candy's eyes She says, "Baby, if you wanna be wild You got a lot to learn Close your eyes, let them melt Let them fire, let them burn 'Cause in the darkness There'll be hidden worlds that shine" When I hold Candy close She makes those hidden worlds mine She has fancy clothes and diamond rings She has men who'll give her anything She wants but they don't see That what she wants is me Oh, and I want her so I'll never let her go, no, no, no She knows that I'd give All that I've got to give All that I want, all I live To make Candy mine Tonight |
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| 4:24 |
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They′re still racing out at the Trestles
But that blood it never burned in her veins Now I hear she′s got a house up in Fairview And a style she′s trying to maintain Well if she wants to see me You can tell her that I′m easily found Tell her there′s a spot out `neath Abram′s Bridge And tell her there′s a darkness on the edge of town Everybody′s got a secret Sonny Something that they just can′t face Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it They carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose Cut it loose or let it drag `em down Where no one asks any questions Or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town Some folks are born into a good life Other folks get it anyway anyhow I lost my money and I lost my wife Them things don′t seem to matter much to me now Tonight I′ll be on that hill `cause I can′t stop I′ll be on that hill with everything I got Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost I′ll be there on time and I′ll pay the cost For wanting things that can only be found In the darkness on the edge of town |
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| 8:13 |
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I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot Outside the Seven-Eleven store Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch And he rides with me from town to town We only run for the money got no strings attached We shut 'em up and then we shut 'em down Tonight, tonight the strip's just right I wanna blow 'em off in my first heat Summer's here and the time is right For racing in the street We take all the action we can meet And we cover all the north east state When the strip shuts down we run 'em in the street From the fire roads to the interstate Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece Some guys come home from work and wash up And go racing in the street Tonight, tonight the strip's just right I wanna blow 'em all out of their seats Calling out around the world, we're going racing in the street I met her on the strip three years ago In a Camaro with this dude from L.A. I blew that Camaro off my back and drove that little girl away But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes And she cries herself to sleep at night When I come home the house is dark She sighs "Baby did you make it all right" She sits on the porch of her daddy's house But all her pretty dreams are torn She stares off alone into the night With the eyes of one who hates for just being born For all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels Rumbling through this promised land Tonight my baby and me we're gonna ride to the sea And wash these sins off our hands Tonight tonight the highway's bright Out of our way mister you best keep 'Cause summer's here and the time is right For racing in the street |
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| 9. |
| 4:17 |
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Well I rode that ribbon highway
I saw above me the endless sky I saw below me the golden valley This land was made for you and me I've roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps Through the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was calling This land was made for you and me This land is your land This land is my land From California To the New York island From the Redwood Forest To the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me Well the sun came shining and I was strolling Through wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling And a voice was sounding As the fog was lifting Saying this land was made for you and me This land is your land This land is my land From California To the New York island From the Redwood Forest To the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me |
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| 4:17 |
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I saw her standin′ on her front lawn just twirlin′ her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap Through to the badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path I can′t say that I′m sorry for the things that we done At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the judge he sentenced me to death Midnight in a prison storeroom with leather straps across my chest Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor head back You make sure my pretty baby is sittin′ right there on my lap They declared me unfit to live said into that great void my soul′d be hurled They wanted to know why I did what I did Well sir I guess there′s just a meanness in this world |
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| 11. |
| 4:22 |
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Well, they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month
Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none He came home too drunk from mixin' Tanqueray and wine He got a gun, shot a night clerk, now they call him Johnny 99 Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top When an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind Out in front of the club Tip Top, they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99 Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was mean John Brown He came into the courtroom and stared poor Johnny down Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence, son, fit the crime Prison for 98 and a year and we'll call it even, Johnny 99 A fist fight broke out in the courtroom, they had to drag Johnny's girl away His mama stood up and shouted "Judge, don't take my boy this way" Well, son, you got any statement you'd like to make Before the bailiff comes and forever take you away Now judge, judge, I got debts no honest man could pay The bank was holdin' my mortgage and takin' my house away Now I ain't sayin' that make me an innocent man But it was more'n all this that put that gun in my hand Well, Your Honor, I do believe I'd be better off dead And if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over, judge, one more time And let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that excecution line |
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Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on highway 31 Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true She said "Baby I'll work for you every day and bring my money home to you" One day he up and left her and ever since that She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back Struck me kinda funny seemed kind of funny sir to me How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away take his body to the graveyard and over him they pray Lord won't you tell us tell us what does it mean Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe Congregation gathers down by the riverside Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waitin' for his bride Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly Wonderin' where can his baby be still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe |
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Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Come back home to the refinery Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me" Went down to see my V.A. man He said "Son, don't you understand" I had a brother at Khe Sanh fighting off the Viet Cong They're still there, he's all gone He had a woman he loved in Saigon I got a picture of him in her arms now Down in the shadow of the penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I'm ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. |
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Well a great black river a man had found
So he put all his money in a hole in the ground And sent a big steel arm drivin' down down down Man now I live on the streets of Houston town Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along And we headed down south with just spit and a song But they said "Sorry son it's gone gone gone" Well there's men hunkered down by the railroad tracks The Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair back Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight And I don't know where I'm gonna sleep tonight Parked in the lumberyard freezin' our asses off My kids in the back seat got a graveyard cough Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the middle of the night Says "Move along man move along" Well big limousine long shiny and black You don't look ahead you don't look back How many times can you get up after you've been hit? Well I swear if I could spare the spit I'd lay one on your shiny chrome And send you on your way back home So if you're gonna leave your town where the north wind blow To go on down where that sweet soda river flow Well you better think twice on it Jack You're better off buyin' a shotgun dead off the rack You ain't gonna find nothin' down here friend Except seeds blowin' up the highway in the south wind |
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The River
I come from down in the valley Where mister, when you're young They bring you up to do, like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school When she was just seventeen We'd drive out of this valley Down to where the fields were green We'd go down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we'd ride Then I got Mary pregnant And man that was all she wrote And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a weddin' coat We went down to the courthouse And the judge put it all to rest No wedding day smiles, No walk down the aisle No flowers, No wedding dress That night we went down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we did ride I got a job workin' construction For the Johnstown company But lately there ain't been much work On accounta the economy Well all them things that seemed so important Well, mister they vanished right into the air Now I just act like I don't remember Mary acts like she don't care But I remember us ridin' in my brother's car Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir At night on those banks I'd lie awake And pull her close just to feel each breath she takes Now those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie, if it don't come true Or is it something worse? That sends me down to the river Though I know the river is dry That sends me down to the river tonight Down to the river My baby and I Oh down to the river we ride |
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War hu yeah what is it good for absolutely nothin.
war hu yeah what is it good for absolutely nothin say it again y'all. war hu good god what is it good for absolutely nothin listen to me war I despise cause it means destruction of innocent lives war brings tears to thousands of mothers eyes when their sons go to fight and lose their lives. I said war hu good god y'all what is it good for absolutely nothin say it again war hu oh oh oh lord what is it good for absolutely nothin listen to me war it aint nothin but a heart breaker war friend only to the undertaker oh war is an enemy to all mankind the thought of war blows my mind war has caused unrest within the younger generation induction then destruction who wants to die oh war good god (background hu) y'all what is it good for absolutely nothin say it say it say it war hu what is it good for absolutely nothin listen to me war it aint nothin but a heart breaker war it's got one friend thats the undertaker oh war many young mans dreams made him disabled bitter and mean life is much too short and precious to spend fighting wars these days war cant give life it can only take it away oh war hu good god y'all what is it good for absolutely nothin say it again war hu woah oh oh oh lord what is it good for absolutely nothin listen to me war it aint nothin but a heart breaker war friend only to the undertaker peace love and understand tell me is there no place for the other day they say we must fight to keep our freedom but lord knows theres got to be better way oh war (background good god yall) hu what is it good for do tell yes say it say it say it war hu (background good god y'all) what is good for stand up and shout it nothin |
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Driving in to Darlington County
Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July Driving in to Darlington County Looking for some work on the county line We drove down from New York City Where the girls are pretty but they just want to know your name Driving in to Darlington City Got a union connection with an uncle of Wayne's We drove eight hundred miles without seeing a cop We got rock and roll music blasting off the T-top Singing sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Hey little girl, standing on the corner Today's your lucky day for sure, all right Me and my buddy, we're from New York City We got two hundred dollars, we want to rock all night Girl, you're looking at two big spenders The world don't know what me and Wayne might do Our pa's each own one of the World Trade Centers For a kiss and a smile, I'll give mine all to you Come on baby, take a seat on my fender It's a long night, tell me what else were you gonna do? Just me and you We could sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Little girl, sitting in the window Ain't seen my buddy in seven days County man tells me the same thing He don't work and he don't get paid Little girl, you're so young and pretty Walk with me and you can have your way And we'll leave this Darlington City For a ride down that Dixie Highway Driving out of Darlington County My eyes seen the glory of the coming of the Lord Driving out of Darlington County Seen Wayne handcuffed to the bumper of a state trooper's Ford Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la |
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Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work
Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts I work for the county out on 95 All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this Working on the highway laying down the blacktop Working on the highway all day long I don't stop Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock Working on the highway, working on the highway I met her at a dance down at the union hall She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back Working on the highway... I saved up my money and I put it all away I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say "Son can't you see that she's just a little girl She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world" We lit out down to Florida we got along all right One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day And the judge got mad and he put me straight away I wake up every morning to the work bell clang Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang Working on the highway... |
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On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert
I pick up my money and head back into town Driving cross the Waynesboro county line I got the radio on and I'm just killing time Working all day in my daddy's garage Driving all night chasing some mirage Pretty soon little girl I'm gonna take charge The dogs on Main Street howl 'cause they understand If I could take one moment into my hands Mister I ain't a boy no I'm a man And I believe in a promised land I've done my best to live the right way I get up every morning and go to work each day But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold Sometimes I feel so weak I just wanna' explode Explode and tear this old town apart Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart Find somebody itching for something to start The dogs on Main Street howl 'cause they understand If I could take one moment into my hands Mister I ain't a boy no I'm a man And I believe in a promised land There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that's tear you apart Blow away the dreams that's break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and broken hearted The dogs on Main Street howl 'cause they understand If I could take one moment into my hands Mister I ain't a boy no I'm a man And I believe in a promised land |
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The times are tough now, just getting tougher
This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher Cover me, come on baby, cover me Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Promise me baby you won't let them find us Hold me in your arms, let's let our love blind us Cover me, shut the door and cover me Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Outside's the rain, the driving snow I can hear the wild wind blowing Turn out the light, bolt the door I ain't going out there no more This whole world is out there just trying to score I've seen enough I don't want to see any more, Cover me, come on and cover me I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me |
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Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone, mm-hmm? I got a bad desire Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire Tell me now, baby, is he good to you? Can he do to you the things that I do, uh-huh? I can take you higher Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head Only you can cool my desire Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire |
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Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done There was nothing nobody could say Me and you we've known each other ever since we were sixteen I wished I would have known I wished I could have called you Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their nose We liked the same music we liked the same bands we liked the same clothes We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wished you would have told me I wished I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid Now there ain't nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere In some bus or train traveling along In some motel room there'll be a radio playing And you'll hear me sing this song Well if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you and all the miles in between And I'm just calling one last time not to change your mind But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye, Bobby Jean |
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was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown In `65 tension was running high at my high school There was a lot of fights between the black and white There was nothing you could do Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun Words were passed in a shotgun blast Troubled times had come to my hometown My hometown My hometown My hometown Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown Your hometown Your hometown Your hometown Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out Packing up our bags maybe heading south I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around This is your hometown |
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In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line Baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young `Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims and strap your hands across my engines Together we could break this trap We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back Will you walk with me out on the wire `Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta find out how it feels I want to know if love is wild girl I want to know if love is real Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors And the boys try to look so hard The amusement park rises bold and stark Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight In an everlasting kiss The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness I'll love you with all the madness in my soul Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run |
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We busted out of class had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound I can feel my heart begin to pound You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes and follow your dreams down We made a promise we swore we'd always remember No retreat no surrender Like soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend No retreat no surrender Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again And hear your sister's voice calling us home across the open yards Well maybe we could cut someplace of our own With these drums and these guitars Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend No retreat no surrender Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim The walls of my room are closing in There's a war outside still raging you say it ain't ours anymore to win I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies in my lover's bed with a wide open country in my eyes and these romantic dreams in my head |
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Teardrops on the city, Bad Scooter searching for his groove
Seem like the whole world walking pretty and you can't find the room to move Well, everybody better move over, that's all 'Cause I'm running on the bad side and I got my back to the wall Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out Well, I was stranded in the jungle trying to take in all the heat they was giving The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright and lined with the light of the living From a tenement window, a transistor blasts Turn around the corner, things got real quiet real fast I walked into a Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out And I'm all alone, I'm all alone And kid, you better get the picture And I'm on my own, I'm on my own And I can't go home When the change was made uptown and the Big Man joined the band From the coastline to the city all the little pretties raise their hands I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half With a Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out |
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I got no time for the corner boys
Down in the street making all that noise Or the girls down on the avenue 'Cause tonight I wanna be with you Tonight I'm gonna take that ride Across the river to the Jersey side Take my baby to the carnival And I'll take her on all the rides 'Cause down the shore everything's all right You and your baby on a Saturday night Well, you know all my dreams come true When I'm walking down the street with you Sing sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la I'm in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la You know she thrills me with all her charms When I'm wrapped up in my baby's arms My little girl gives me everything I know that some day that she'll wear my ring So don't bother me, man, I ain't got no time I'm on my way to see that girl of mine 'Cause nothing matters in this whole wide world When you're in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la I'm in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la I see you on the street and you look so tired I know that job you got leaves you so uninspired When I come by to take you out to eat You're lyin' all dressed up on the bed, baby, fast asleep Go in the bathroom and put your makeup on We're gonna take that little girl of yours And drop her off at your mom's I know a place where the dancin's free Now baby won't you come with me 'Cause down the shore everything's all right You and your baby on a Saturday night Nothing matters in this whole wide world When you're in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la I'm in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la |
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