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Please, remember me 
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Happily 
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By the rosebush laughing 
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With bruises on my chin 
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The time when 
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We counted every black car passing 
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Your house beneath the hill 
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And up until 
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Someone caught us in the kitchen 
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With maps, a mountain range 
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A piggy bank 
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A vision too removed to mention 
  
And
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Please, remember me 
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Fondly 
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I heard from someone you're still pretty 
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And then they went on to say 
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That the pearly gates 
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Had such eloquent graffiti 
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Like "We'll meet again" 
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And "Fuck the man" 
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And "Tell my mother not to worry" 
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And angels with their great 
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Handshakes 
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Were always done in such a hurry 
  
And
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Please, remember me 
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That Halloween 
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Making fools of all the neighbors 
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Our faces painted white 
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By midnight 
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We'd forgotten one another 
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And when the morning came 
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I was ashamed 
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Only now it seems so silly 
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That season left the world 
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And then returned 
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And now you're lit up by the city 
  
And
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Please, remember me 
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Mistakenly 
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In the window of the tallest tower 
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Calling passers-by 
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We're much too high 
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To see the empty road at happy hour 
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Gleam and resonate 
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Just like the gates 
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Around the holy kingdom 
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With words like "Lost and found" 
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And "Don't look down" 
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And "Someone save Temptation" 
  
And
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Please, remember me 
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As in the dream 
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We had as rug-burn babies 
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Among the fallen trees 
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We're fast asleep 
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Beside the lions and the ladies 
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That called you what you like 
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And even might 
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Give a gift for your behavior 
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A fleeting chance to see 
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A trapeze 
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Swinger high as any savior 
  
And
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Please, remember me 
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My misery 
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And how it lost me all I wanted 
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Those dogs that love the rain 
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And chasing trains 
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The colored birds above their running 
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In circles around the well 
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And where it spells 
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On the wall behind St. Peter 
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So bright on cinder gray 
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In spray paint 
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"Who the hell can see forever?" 
  
And
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Please, remember me 
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Seldomly 
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In the car behind the carnival 
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My hand between your knees 
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You turned from me 
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And said, "The trapeze act was wonderful 
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But never meant to last" 
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The clowns that passed 
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Saw me just come up with anger 
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When it filled with circus dogs 
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The parking lot 
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Had an element of danger 
  
And
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Please, remember me 
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Finally 
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And all my uphill clawing 
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My dear, but if I make 
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The pearly gates 
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I'll do my best to make a drawing 
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Of God and Lucifer 
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A boy and girl 
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An angel kissing on a sinner 
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A monkey and a man 
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A marching band 
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All around the frightened trapeze swinger
[Outro]
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Na, na-na 
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Na-na 
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Na-na, na-na 
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Na-na-na, na-na 
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Na-na 
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Na-na-na, na-na 
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Na-na-na