Payne Avenue lives up to its name
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Some nights it's painful and strange
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The whole city seemed sane in the day
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But some nights it seems distressed and deranged
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The east side is where we met with those guys
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That said they'd get us high but then changed
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Now they're down in the basement
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And they're bashing out his brains
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Kids are getting cut up with the motorcycle chains
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And St. Paul had it all when we called
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And they were maxing out on medicine
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A shaved head and the blood on the bed
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And those guys you recognize, they got the same tattoos as Gideon
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Strong stuff and she had more than enough
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And she was slumping over smiling and sailing off with cherubim
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The cityscape skins are kinda kicking it again
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They're gonna show these kids some discipline
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Gideon's been living up in Bay City, Michigan
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And he's been workng at the Michelin
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He got messed up with some messed up magicians
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We got so high some nights Michigan looked just like a mitten
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Some nights we got fried
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Strung out on residuals and visuals and laser shows
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Reach into the speaker and try to hold on to the quarter notes
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I always dream about a unified scene
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I always dream about a unified scene
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There's James King and King James and James Dean
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At a table in the corner of my unified scene
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They want a double order of love and respect
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They said they just got back from up in Hostile, Massachussetts
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And girl, I've seen your friend, she looks nothing like Jada Pinkett
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I think you got something in those cigarettes
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Gideon was living up in South Minneapolis
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He was the cowboy on the crosstown bus
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And all the little phillies at the Yukon Club
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Are gunning for the goldrush
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We got tangled in electrical fences
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We got wrapped up in the indian fringes
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All the little phillies at the Yukon Club
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Are gunning for the goldrush
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Yeah, they just can't get enough
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Sweet Payne
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The Hold Steady |