Where streets start getting wild
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Well you're moving on down on the other side of the tracks
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Would you cross that line baby, there ain't no turning back
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Some raise and I don't ever wanna see that place
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That's where the action is
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Listen, hear the stories hear the lies
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You hear the rooms they criticize
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They call you everything under the moon
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Then they try to buy you with diamonds and rings and rings
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Move over baby gonna help you out of this mess
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By the look of your face well you been here before I guess
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You're hanging around, like some kinda parasite on past
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And I just wanna tell you to come on let's go
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And I know a place where never cold
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And I know a place where the thing is sin
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And I'm gonna tell you where the action is
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Your momma's told you about whiskey and she's told you about beer
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...drink and hear... nothing
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It turns you into a monster it turns your mind insane
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It does things to you where you will never come back again
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I don't care what your disposition is I don't care what's your name
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I'm gonna tell you where the action is
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Look at you dressed in your debutante dress and your phoney eye-lashes
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Walking around like you just walked out of some fucking car crash
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You think that you're OK cause you're looking like you're gonna have a smash
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with the action
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I don't care where you're going, I don't care what you say,
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What your religion is
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Baby, I just wanna tell you where the action is, hey, hey, hey, hey
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Take off that wedding ring baby, you don't need it anymore
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Take off that dress girl and throw it out the door
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Take off those phoney make-up and those eye-lashes I saw
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Take off your shoes and your hat
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And throw the whole fucking lot right out the door
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Come over here and lend me your ear
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I'm gonna tell you where the action is
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I don't care if you can read a book or if you can write
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I don't care how long your hair is or how bright
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I don't care about much to tell you the truth but that's allright
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I only care is if you come on like you think you're with the action
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I've got only one thing to say: come here darling, kiss me,
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I'm gonna show you where the action is
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You spend a little dollar and you spend a little dime
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You get all funny and you laugh at your friends
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And you think you're having a good time
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You don't know nothing till you come around here and have some of mine
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Then you'll start to understand about the two sides of the line
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Come over here darling, lend me your ear, gonna educate you
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Gonna tell you where the action is
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Where The Action Is
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| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds |
