Shadow and Jimmy were always yesterday's news
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Jimmy's a bowler, Shadow rents out his green bowling shoes
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Late Friday night when the bars are all shuttered and dark
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He shadows back Jimmy to the lot in the lost trailer park
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For shadow and Jimmy all the weekends end up the same
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If it's Saturday night, then it must be the hockey game
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After cold beer and barbecued ribs the night is complete
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With wrestling stories and elegant bones
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That are tired of walking and on their way home
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[Chorus:]
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And they talk about the women
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And they look at the girls
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They'll never know the ways of the world
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They've got a mouthful of much obliged
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And a handful of gimme
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And the love for each other
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Of Shadow and Jimmy
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For Shadow and Jimmy now the story is told
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There's nothing to hold on to and no one to hold
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Men without women are like fish without
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water to swim in
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With their eyes bugging out
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They flop on the beach
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And look up at the girls
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Who are just out of reach
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Shadow And Jimmy
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| Elvis Costello |
