I found you sitting on a suitcase crying
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Beneath my feet I feel the rumble of a subway train
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And I laugh out loud
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'Cause it's the one thing I hadn't been trying
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The train came in breathless
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The passenger's restless
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You say, "Baby, you'll never change"
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(chorus)
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You gotta get gone
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You gotta get going
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Hey, the world ain't slowin' down
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For no one
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It's a carnival calling out to you
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And it sounds like a song
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It hits you like scripture
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You paint the picture
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With colors squeezed from your hand
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Weren't you the kid
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Who just climbed on a merry-go-round
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Hey, look, the world ain't slowin' down
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Out on the sidewalk
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The pigeons do the moonwalk
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I'll be dancing like Fred Astaire
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The lampposts are rockin'
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The whole town is talking
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Like a fool in a barber's chair
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And I get the sensation
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It's joy and frustration
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Like getting caught by a drop of cold rain
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Freedom can numb you
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When there's no place to run to
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It feels just like Novocain
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(chorus)
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You packed up all your handbags
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You're throwing off the sandbags
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I let go when you stepped free
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I didn't want to lose you
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You said, "You didn't choose to --
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It's just how your karma came"
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But thanks for the vision,
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And the twenty-twenty wisdom
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It hit me like a south-bound train
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(chorus)
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The World Ain't Slowin' Down
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| Ellis Paul |
