Tape From California
Who's that coming down the roa
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A sailor from the se
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He looks a lot like m
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I'd know him anywhere, had to stare
Feathers at his fingertip
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A halo 'round his spin
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he must have lost his min
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he should be put away, right awa
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In the corner of the nigh
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he handed me his waterpip
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His eyes were searching deep inside my hea
Here's what he sai
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Sorry I can't stop and talk no
I'm in kind of a hurry anyho
CGA
But I'll send you a tape from Californi
New York city has exploded and it's crashed upon my hea
I dove beneath the be
Fighting, biting nails, turning pal
The landlord's at my windo
And the burglar's at my doo
I can't take it anymor
I guess I'll have to fly, it's worth a tr
Someone's banging on the wal
But there's no party to recal
The singer of the shadows of his sou
So he's been tol
Sorry I can't stop and talk no
I'm in kind of a hurry anyho
But I'll send you a tape from Californi
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From the mirror of my mantle to the velvet on my be
DCAmE
Trapped upon a stolen stage, a Barrymore at best(?
AGA
My rhymes are all repeating, ballads growing blin
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Words have turned to water, the women turned to win
The draft board is debating if they'd like to take my lif
I'd sooner take a wife and have raise a child or tw
Wouldn't you
Peace has turned to poiso
The flag has blown a fus
Even courage is confuse
And now all the brave are in the grav
Century is bending(?
have a very happy endin
To the victor go the ashes of the spoi
Seeds in the soi
Sorry I can't stop and talk no
I'm in kind of a hurry anyho
But I'll send you a tape from Californi
The flower-power fuller brush ma
is farming out his friend
I stabbed him with my ste
And then I tapped his toes with my ros
He crawled around inside himsel
Now he's crawling after m
Dropping acid in my te
He wants to save his sou
rock and rol
One of us must understan
It's not the drug that makes the ma
Then a poster of a movie star walked b
He must have been hig
Sorry I can't stop and talk no
I'm in kind of a hurry anyho
But I'll send you a tape from Californi
Half the world is crazy and the other half is scare
Maddonas do the minuet for the naked millionaire
The anarchists are rising while we're racing for the moo
It doesn't take a seer to see that the scene is coming soo
So who's that coming down the roa
A sailor from the se
He looks a lot like m
I'd know him anywher
Had to star
A fire around his fingertip
A song around his spin
He must have found his min
He should be put awa
Anywa
Surrounded by the slaughte
Now I'm boarding(?) at the borde
When the echoes of my ecstacy appea
Wish I was her
Sorry I can't stop and talk no
I'm in kind of a hurry anyho
But I'll send you a tape from California
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