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First night and feeling giddy
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A stranger in the city
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As she smiles like a child
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To the familiar sky
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Starlight starbright
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I wish upon a star tonight
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I wish i may
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I wish i might
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See you somewhere out tonight!
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Where did they go?
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The stars shudder
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Swallowed by deafening neon lights
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Drowning
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Impounding her senses
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As she tenses
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Feeling defenses
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Her body has never known
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She thought she was grown
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Ready to deal
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Steady to feel
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The new ground
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But instead
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Her head
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Spins around
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With people
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Walking big
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And talking loud
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saying nothing
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going nowhere fast
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This was not what she asked for
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Confused by moving lips
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And legs and
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Lights that lined her mind
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She escapes
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And hopes to wake
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To a better tomorrow
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She can't see
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eyes open
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neighbors drunken
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empty slogans
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spirits fallen
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sadness woven
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innocence stolen
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hearts broken
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hope forsaken
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lives tokens
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dreams slighted
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rules once golden
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now forgotten
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and
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she can't see
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into the mirror without a fear
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over her changing reflection
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the souls contradiction
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with dimming light behind her eyes
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as dark as the midnight skies
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but
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she sees
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dem city girls
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with ironed curls
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whose scope and views is narrow
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emotions and perspectives so shallow
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only an echo of conscience
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in a space that's hollow
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that's ignored
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As they pour
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Over catalogs
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And like rouges
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Roam from shop to shop
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til they drop
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And cops listen to hip hop
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Trying to put their finger on their blunders
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And the pulse of the street
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To scare the behest of the beat
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To get the deep guttural sounds of hunger and anger
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Who really understand
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The language of the rhythm
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But instead they keep their hand on the trigger of cynicism
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She sees to much
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And not enough
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of what she wants to see.
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Star Suite II. Fading Star
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MONDO GROSSO |