Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast
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Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat
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Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight
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Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night
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Morning brings the tourists, peering eyes and rubber necks
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To catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck
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It's a mass of irony for all the world to see
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It's the nation's capital, it's Washington D.C.
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It's the nation's capital
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It's the nation's capital
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It's the nation's capital, it's Washington D.C.
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(mmmm-hmmm)
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May not have the glitter or the glamour of L.A.
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May not have the history or the intrigue of Pompeii
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But when it comes to making music, and sure enough making news
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People who just don't make sense and people making do
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Seems a ball of contradictions, pulling different ways
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Between the folks who come and go, and one's who've got to stay
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It's a mass of irony for all the world to see
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It's the nation's capital, it's Washington D.C.
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It's the nation's capital
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It's the nation's capital
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It's the nation's capital, it's Washington D.C.
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Seems to me, it's still in light time people knifed up on 14th street
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Makes me feel it's always the right time for them people showing up and coming clean
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Did make the one seem kind of numb
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It's the nation's capital
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It's the nation's capital
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It's the nation's capital, it's Washington D.C.
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(mmmm-hmmm)
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Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast
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Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat
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Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight
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Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night
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Morning come and bring the tourists, craning rubber necks
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Catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck
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It's a mass of irony for all the world to see
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It's the nation's capital, it's Washington D.C.
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It's the nation's capital
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It's the nation's capital
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It's the nation's capital, it's Washington D.C.
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It's the nation's capital
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Got you feeling capital
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Punishment is capital in Washington D.C.
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Washington, D.C.
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| Gil Scott-Heron |
