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This is taken from a live show, performed with an acoustic guitar.  The lyrics are somewhat of an amalgamation.

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We had our passports out and our kits to fix them up
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A hurricane lamp threw our shadows on the ceiling 
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I watched them box with one another like punch and judy
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It was lovely it was awful it was that kind of feeling when you 
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said that it was sure, that there was nothing standing in our way
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and the lie ran off and hid itself in the alleys all across Bombay

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I saw you knock the lamp over while reaching for the scissors
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and i wondered how we'd ever get by without it
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you fell into my arms, sweet and gentle
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poison in the water, little doubt about it

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and you said one of us would be all alone someday
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and the truth of it echoed inexhaustibly
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up and down the thoroughfares all across Bombay

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