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alright i'm on johnson avenue in san luis obispo
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and i'm five years old or six maybe.
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and indications that there's something wrong with our new house,
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trip down the wire twice daily.
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i'm in the living room watching the watergate hearings,
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while my stepfather yells at my mother
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launches a glass across the room straight at her head.
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and i dash upstairs to take cover,
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lean in close to my little record player on the floor,
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so this is what the volume knob's for,
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i listen to dance music.
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dance music.

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ok so look i'm seventeen years old,
and you're the last best thing i've got going,
but then the special super sicknesss starts to eat through you,
what am i supposed to do?
no way of knowing.
so i follow you down your twisting alleyways,
find a few cul de sacs of my own.
there's only one place this road ever ends up,
and i don't want to die alone.
let me down,
let me down
let me down gently.
when the police come to get me i'm listening to dance music.
dance music.

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