I WAS COMMITTED TO LIFE AND THEN COMMUTED TO THE OUTSKIRTS
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With all the love in the world
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Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts
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But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls
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WHERE A SHOWER OF AFFECTION BECOMES NIAGARA FALLS
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And you wish she could step down from the screen to your seat in the stalls
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BUT IF STARS ARE ONLY PAINTED ON THE CEILING ABOVE
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Then who can you turn to and who do you love
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I want to get out while I still can
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I want to be like Harry Houdini
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Now I'm the invisible man
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My head is spinning round faster and faster
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Here I stand on the edge of disaster
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I'm shattered like a piece of crystal porcelain or alabaster
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Crowds surround loudspeakers hanging from the lampposts
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Listening to the murder mystery
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Meanwhile someone's hiding in the classroom
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Forging books of history
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NEVER MIND THERE'S A GOOD FILM SHOWING TONIGHT
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WHERE THEY HANG EVERYONE EVERYBODY WHO CAN READ AND WRITE
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OH THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE BUT THEN AGAIN IT MIGHT
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The Invisible Man
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| Elvis Costello |
