I say this was no game of chicken
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You were aiming your best friend
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That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck
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I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad
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Now its daddy on the booze
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And Brando on the ice
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Now it's Dean in the doorway
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With one more way he can't play this scene twice
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So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love
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And you told her to stand tall whet you kissed her
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But that's not where you were thinking...
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How could a Natalie Wood not get sucked into a scene so custom tucked?
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How now look who shows up
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In the same place
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In this case
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I think it's better
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To face it -
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We belong together
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We belong together
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Once Johnny the King made a spit ring
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And all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man
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And he entwine her in his finger
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And she lay there like a baby in his hand
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And climb upon the rooftop docks lookin' out on the crosstown seas
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And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders
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And he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees
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But a sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair
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To turn her into a tattoo
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That will whisper
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Into the back of Johnny's black hair
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And now Johnny the King walks these streets without her in the rain
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Lookin' for a leather jacket
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And a girl who wrote her name forever
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A promise that -
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We belong together
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We belong together
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Shall we weigh along these streets
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Young lions on the lam?
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Are the signs you hid deep in your heart
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All left on neon for them?
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Who are foolish
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Who are victim
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Of the sailors and the ducky boys who would
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Move into your eyes and lips and
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Every tear
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That falls down on the neighborhood now
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I said "Bird, we just gotta tell them"
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And they turn and ignore us
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And the only heroes we got left
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Are written right before us
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And the only angel who sees us now
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Watches through each other's eyes
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And I can hear him
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In every footstep's passing sigh
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He goes crazy these nights
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Watching heartbeats go by...
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And they wisper -
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We belong together
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We belong together
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We Belong Together
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| Rickie Lee Jones |
