Brother in tears
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Look at this chain of sorrows
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Stretching all the way from here and now to hell and gone
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I was Kid Clean
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She was Anne de Siecle
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Just a thrill away from punching through to the cosmic wow
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It started out good
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Then it got lots better
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Makin' up the rules as we went along
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But with a business like this
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There's an gnarly downside
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I'm way deep into nothing special
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Riding the crest of a wave breaking just west of Hollywood
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Swingin' so hard
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We burned right through the summer
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Till the axis of pain/pleasure sheared the arc of desire
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From the Rebus affair
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To the streets of Culver City
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Places and events slip below the horizon line
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Now at this time
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Into our pretty story
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The truth compels us
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To bring a certain name
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Meet if you will
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Doctor Warren Kruger
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[Chorus]
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She reached out for my hand
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While I watched myself lurch across the room
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And I almost got there
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Look in my eyes
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Can't you see the core is frozen?
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You can't ask me to access the dreams I don't have now
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Sadly for us
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Our little talk is over
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So together we'll endure the tyranny of the disallowed
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Don't you love Port Blanc
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When Hooterie is over
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When the girls get easy and the crowds are gone
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A weekend of bliss
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Then the rainy season
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[Chorus]
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West Of Hollywood
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Steely Dan |