Cold Blue Steel out of money
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One eye for the beat police
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Sweet Fire calling
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"You can't deny me
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Now you know what you need"
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Underneath the jungle gym
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Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
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Looking for Sweet Fire
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Shadow of Lady Release
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"Come with me
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I know the way" she says
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"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
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Do you want to contact somebody first
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Leave someone a letter
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You can come now
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Or you can come later"
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A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer
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Edgy-black cracks of the sky
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"Pin-cushion-prick-
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Fix this poor bad dreamer!"
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"Money" cold shadows reply
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Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked
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Corridors spit on prayers and pleas
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Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire
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Black soot of Lady Release
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"Come with me
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I know the way" she says
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"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
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Do you want to contact somebody first
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Does it really matter
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If you come now
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Or if you come on later?"
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Red water in the bathroom sink
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Fever and the scum brown bowl
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Blue Steel still begging
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But it's indistinct
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Someone's Hi-Fi drumming Jelly Roll
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Concrete concentration camp
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Bashing in veins for peace
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Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
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Fall into Lady Release
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"Come with me I know the way" she says
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"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
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Do you want to contact somebody first
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I mean what does it really matter
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You're going to come now
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Or you're going to come later"
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Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
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| Joni Mitchell |