I'm walking down Times Square in the Electric Daylight
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The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white.
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I'm up here with my spying glass at the window up above
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For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love.
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Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
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Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.
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"And remember to free faraway from the unbridled, and the impudent,
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the malicious, and the unlucky.
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For these being full of bad demons or rays are maleficent,
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and like lepers and people striken with plague,
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they harm not only by touch but even by proximity and by sight." (Dig it!)
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(Quote from Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher [1433-1499])
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You mutter underneath your breath - IT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD
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Everybody comes from nowhere.
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There is hope, it loops up in the air
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Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
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Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.
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You said I used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes
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Professors and vampires drank up all the tears I cried.
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Now there's a bird at my window, he feeds upon the pane (pain)
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and sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy.
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Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
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Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.
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Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
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Now I know, they've burned one sinner and the others are sadly following
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(set to follow?)
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Now I know.
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Now I know.
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Now I know.
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The Bridge I Burned
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Elvis Costello |