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An outcry
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To lost dreams and the sense of wonder
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To the streets that raised him, say goodbye
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To the hope for the home he'd been holding
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Say goodbye and be gone and be great
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To the friends who left when they still could
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For the ones who chose to stay
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To waste away unplaced
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Alone and pray
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To get out, to grow old, to grow strong
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And leave this city
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So familiar
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All its places
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All these memories
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Turn each day more to gray
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More they space out till it's
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Once a year we'll catch up
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Maybe less
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Or else just daydreams
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While he's working late
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Thinks only of those friends
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And when they left
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Are we still friends
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At all, my friends?
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Can I leave?
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Rewind and find a younger man
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All hopes and goals and dreams alight
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And bright with friendship
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At the crossroads in the night
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"Now make a choice"
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The city said
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We were barely twenty then
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But while I swore it my allegiance
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They chose leaving, all my friends
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And now it's letters
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Maybe phone calls
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That come less and less each year
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All addressed with wives and children
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To the fool who chose to stay here
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And it hurts me to know I'm alone now
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And it's worse when I know that I chose it
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Don't make the same mistake as me
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Don't make the same mistake
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And now my friends have all left
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Or it's been me gone all along?
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I guess we all part one day
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And drop like leaves into the breeze
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And ain't it wild?
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Ain't it bitter?
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Didn't it carry you from me?
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But it's the coping with my fear
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That keeps me here, see, once it's gone
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Do I regret you?
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You can't retrieve it
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Can I forget you?
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I still believe
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I might get left here
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I might turn 63
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Still sweeping up the gutters in the street
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Or weeding concrete
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Wait and see
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We'll wait and see
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Or rather, I will
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Only me
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Only me
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Don't make the same mistake as me
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Don't make the same mistake
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Don't make the same mistake as me
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Say goodbye and be gone and be great
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And be done and be free
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________________________
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Name Edit Your Hometown
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Artist La Dispute
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Album Wildlife
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