You know those feelings I'm talking about
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You're walking down the road
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A car indicates right and then turns left
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You didn't get the code
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It's a world of signs we're living in
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A mirror and that's a fact
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If you don't reflect what they provide
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They're likely to react
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Was another wind-swept Wednesday
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In the schoolyard of the heart
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Your knuckles got wrapped for this before
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You had to learn your part
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I'm at your window looking in
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Seems my valentine has died
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We came out in 1983
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Now you've gone back inside
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You've gone back inside
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A snapshot of a wicked world
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It's flowing down the sink
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But there is no point in watching it go
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No time to sit and think
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The world's revolving faster
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But the train's still going slow
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So much cackle, no more laughter
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Don't trust anyone you don't know
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Your mother's irresponsible
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Your father's on the booze
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It just happened to turn out that way
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They could not really choose
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Now you've got big alternatives
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But it's only one or naught
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Don't try to look between those places
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If you do then don't get caught
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Don't get caught cos that could ruin your career
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You're looking for a part-time job
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You're picking up the perks
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And all you do is lick the floor
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And jerk off all the jerks
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I don't know if you've noticed
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I'm tired of being understood
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But at least these words rhyme with the world
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In a sense you knew they would
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Sometimes I am a politician
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Other times I'm just a king
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But I always do the things I want
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Like let my payphone ring
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Of course I have no money
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Naturally, I have no friends
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Of course I have no power
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But the license to pretend that I've got a career
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I can pretend that I've got a career
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You reached the door they told you to
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They just said eWell what took you so long?'
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Well maybe in that corridor
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All the exits were marked wrong
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You took the route they told you to
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You walked down straight white lines
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You kept on looking straight ahead
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I'm sure it'll work out fine
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Now you've got what you want and you've got your career
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You And Your Career
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| John Wesley Harding |
