| Just across from the hospital
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| Still in sight of the red lights
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| A couple blocks from the orthodox church
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| That’s where the old poet lived
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| In his eyeglasses and his necktie
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| At the window looking down
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| On the young men passing by
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| On the fullness of the town
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| Full of them good time gamblers
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| Full of their restless wives
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| Full of them midnight writers
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| Out in the quarter on a Friday night
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| Out in the brightness of a Friday night
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| And the big horns blowed and the pianos played
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| And the music rose to the old man’s ears
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| I guess those were the olden days
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| I guess those were the golden years
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| And now the town is empty
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| Empty as a mirror
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| Empty as the harbor and the barber’s chair
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| Where did the old poet go?
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| I asked around
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| Nobody knows
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| Maybe I came too early
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| Maybe I came too late
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| I’m waiting in the shadows of the scaffolds
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| Of the old cafés where you told me to wait
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| And I’ve got this lingering feeling
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| It’s like I’ve slipped between
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| Finger of the century
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| I know you know what I mean
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| I’ll be a good time gambler
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| I’ll be a restless wife
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| I’ll be a midnight writer
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| Out in the quarter on a Friday night
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| Call me good time gambler
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| Call me a restless wife
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| Call me a midnight writer
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| Out in the quarter on a Friday night
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| Out in the brightness of a Friday night
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| Call me the brightness of a Friday night |