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Of all the things I wish in faling asleep,
Taking back the old days isn’t one.
I conquered Europe before I died one morning,
I guess I’m just killing for fun.
When I was born the stars were in an uproar
And Joe was on the road with the Pogues.
When you grow up, you’ll be a giraffe
White nosed on the cover of vogue.

We’ll be bookends with oceans between
We’ll be always seventeen.
A page a day of gone with the wind.
You’ll pray. I’ll live in sin.

The sick lizard lives at the base my brainstem.
They say he’s reckless and violent and mean.
His death drive knows everything’s alright
With the world and the killing and me.
My wife ran off with a silent movie star,
Left a note that I forgot to read.
She was pale and she was sweet and I couldn’t compete
She loved to dance and I couldn’t lead.

We’ll be bookends with oceans between
We’ll be always seventeen.
A page a day of gone with the wind.
You’ll pray. I’ll live in sin.

I went back to the town where I first heard the sound
Of the torture souls who live in squalor.
I would die to be one, but I’d also die for fun,
And kill to be a little bit taller
You don’t know who you are; I’m not one to push,
I’m just along for the ride.
My mother told me for my sanity she prayed,
But I must live for those who died.

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from The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway, released December 30, 2011

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