Heatwaves on the runway
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As the wheels set down
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He takes his baggage off the carousel
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He takes a taxi into town
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Yellow schools of taxi fishes
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Jonah in a ticking whale
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Caught up at the light in the fishnet windows
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Of Bloomingdale's
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Watching those high fashion girls
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Skinny black models with Raveen curls
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Beauty parlor blondes with credit card eyes
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Looking for the chic and the fancy
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To buy
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He opens up his suitcase
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In the continental suite
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And people twenty stories down
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Colored currents in the street
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A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof
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Like a dragonfly on a tomb
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And business men in button downs
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Press into conference rooms
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Battalions of paper-minded males
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Talking commodities and sales
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While at home their paper wives
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And paper kids
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Paper the walls to keep their gut reactions hid
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Yellow checkers for the kitchen
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Climbing ivy for the bath
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She is lost in House and Gardens
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He's caught up in Chief of Staff
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He drifts off into the memory
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Of the way she looked in school
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With her body oiled and shining
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At the public swimming pool ...
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* * *
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The more I'm with you, pretty baby
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The more I feel my love increase
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I'm building all my dreams around you
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Our happiness will never cease
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'Cause nothing's any good without you
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Baby you're my centerpiece
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We'll find a house and garden somewhere
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Along a country road a piece
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A little cottage on the outskirts
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Where we can really find release
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'Cause nothing's any good without you
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Baby you're my centerpiece
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* * *
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...Shining hair and shining skin
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Shining as she reeled him in
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To tell him like she did today
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Just what he could do with Harry's House
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And Harry's take home pay
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HARRY'S HOUSE-CENTERPIECE
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| Joni Mitchell |
