| Man next door came round one night
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| To ask me for a drink
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| I said i didn’t anymore
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| He said, 'that's what you think'
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| A tendril curled around his leg
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| As he got up to leave
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| He said, 'a friend of yours was here
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| But we all call him steve'
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| Clean steve
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| Clean steve
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| They don’t come any dirtier than me
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| Better watch out all you space cats
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| Clean steve is a mineral man
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| My cousin bruce came round to stay
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| The father of my son
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| He tore apart a stethoscope
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| And pointed at the sun
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| 'there's tentacles between our worlds,'
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| He said, 'so i believe'
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| I said, 'the man next door’s best friend
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| Was making videos with clean steve'
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| You could have knocked him down with a feather
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| Clean steve lent me a pound
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| In nineteen seventy-four
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| That was a lot of money then
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| I was extremely poor
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| We had a party three years later
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| Clean steve wore a robe
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| He brought a new nick lowe cassette
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| And played it in the road
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| Clean steve
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| Clean steve
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| They don’t come any dirtier than me
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| Better watch out all you space cats
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| Clean steve is a mineral man
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| I called up mark ellen
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| But he wasn’t really in
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| Instead i talked to his wife claire
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| About some gigs she’d seen
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| Clean steve was outside the house
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| Watching both his feet
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| We all had dinner with him once
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| He gave us lots to eat
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| There’s some real people in the world
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| And some who are pretend
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| Clean steve is making videos
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| With the man next door’s best friend
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| He’s good at playing frisbee
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| And his teeth are shining bright
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| I think he comes from liverhead
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| If all my facts are right
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| Clean steve
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| Clean steve
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| They don’t come any dirtier than me
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| Better watch out all you space cats
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| Clean steve is a mineral man |