(Verlaine)
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I remember
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how the darkness doubled
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I recall
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lightning struck itself.
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I was listening
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listening to the rain
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I was hearing
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hearing something else.
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Life in the hive puckered up my night,
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the kiss of death, the embrace of life.
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There I stand neath the Marquee Moon Just waiting,
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Hesitating...
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I ain't waiting
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I spoke to a man
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down at the tracks.
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I asked him
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how he don't go mad.
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He said "Look here junior, don't you be so happy.
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And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad."
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Well a Cadillac
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it pulled out of the graveyard.
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Pulled up to me
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all they said get in.
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Then the Cadillac
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it puttered back into the graveyard.
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And me,
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I got out again.
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Marquee Moon
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Tom Verlaine |