Will you walk us uptown?
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And wherever you go
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You know we will follow
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Will you walk us uptown?
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And we'll stand in the light
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Of your new killing ground
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And we won't make a sound.
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Except to sing our sorrow
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Will you walk us uptown?
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While our tears run in torrents
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To suffer in silence or pray for some solace
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Will you wash away our sins
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In the cross-fire and cross-currents
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As you uncross your fingers
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And take out some insurance.
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No matter what the price
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It's your own paradise
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Will you walk us uptown?
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Will you walk us uptown?
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Some hearts are sinking
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And some hearts are a-flutter
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Some scoop gold from the dirt in the gutter
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Or swallow the earth
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Pouring into your mouth
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As they bury us upright saying
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'Everything's alright'
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Will you walk us uptown?
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Like some said that you could
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We will feast on your flesh
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And drink down your blood
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Will you haul down that flag
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And dishonour that vow
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Cause we must not change
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It's color now
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Will you walk us uptown?
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No matter what the price
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Each crushed in the corner of their own paradise
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Will you walk us uptown?
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Will you walk us uptown?
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That's always assuming
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That you're partly divine and partly human
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You're the king of our hearts
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You're the clown with the drum
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Will you walk us uptown?
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If we promise not to run
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Will you walk us uptown?
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Will you gather us near
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As cowards flee and traitors sneer
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Keep a red flag flying
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Keep a blue flag as well
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And a white flag in case it all goes to hell
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Walk Us Uptown
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| Elvis Costello |
