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Caught in the middle
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Carol, we're middle class
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We're middle aged
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We were wild in the old days
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Birth of rock 'n roll days
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Now your kids are coming up straight
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And my child's a stranger
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I bore her
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But, I could not raise her
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Nothing lasts for long--
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Nothing lasts for long--
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Nothing lasts for long--
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Down at the Chinese Cafe
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We'd be dreaming on our dimes
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We'd be playing--
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"Oh my love, my darling"
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One more time
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Uranium money
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Is booming in the old home town now
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It's putting up sleek concrete
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Tearing the old landmarks down now
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Paving over brave little parks
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Ripping off Indian land again
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How long--how long
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Short sighted business men
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Ah, nothing lasts for long--
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Nothing lasts for long--
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Nothing lasts for long--
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Down at the Chinese Cafe
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We'd be dreaming on our dimes
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We'd be playing--
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"You give your love, so sweetly"
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One more time
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Christmas is sparkling
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Out on Carol's lawn
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This girl of my childhood games
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With kids nearly grown and gone
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Grown so fast
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Like the turn of a page
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We look like our mothers did now
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When we were those kids' age
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Nothing lasts for long--
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Nothing lasts for long--
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Nothing lasts for long--
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Down at the Chinese Cafe
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We'd be dreaming on our dimes
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We'd be playing--
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"Oh my love, my darling
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I've hungered for your touch
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A long lonely time
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And time goes by so slowly
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And time can do so much
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Are you still mine?
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I need your love
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I need your love
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God speed your love to me."
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(Time goes--where does the time go--
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I wonder where the time goes. . .)
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CHINESE CAFE/UNCHAINED MELODY
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| Joni Mitchell |
