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Lakeside View Apartments Suite


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Downtown, North past the airport
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A dream in switchgrass and concrete
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Three gray floors of smoky windows
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            Facing the street

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  Michael pulls the blinds back up
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  Stares blankly down at the intersection
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Watching for the guy who's got the angel dust
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     Crystal clear connection

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Days like dominos
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All in a line
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We cheer for the home team
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Every time

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Lakeside view
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Lakeside view
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Lakeside view  for my whole crew

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Most nights now sleep in the kitchen
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Keep my face cool on the floor
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And John John comes by to drop off his envelopes
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Still playing postman after all these years

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Pull down my Army surplus jacket
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Dig through some drawers to find the keys
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Emerge transformed in a million years
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         From days like these

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Under each eye
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Little grease paint smudge
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You can't judge us
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You're not the judge

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Lakeside view
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Lakeside view
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Lakeside view  for my whole crew

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And just before I leave
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I throw up in the sink
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One whole life recorded
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In disappearing ink

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And Ray left a message    thumbtacked to the door
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I don't even bother trying to read them anymore

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Lakeside view
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Lakeside view
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Lakeside view  for my whole crew