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all through the summers, into january |
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ive been visiting mosques and monasteries |
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looking for the necessary body parts |
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limbs and livers and brains and hearts |
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ill bring someone to life, is what i wanna do |
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im gonna create my own version of you |
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well, it must be the winter of my discontent |
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i wish youdve taken me with you wherever you went |
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they talk all night and they talk all day |
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but not for a minute, do i believe anything they say |
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im gon bring someone to life, someone ive never seen |
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you know what i mean, you know exactly what i mean |
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ill take the scar-faced pacino and the godfather vandal |
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mix it up and attack, and get a robot commander |
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if i do it all right and put the head on straight |
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ill be saved by the creature that i create |
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ill get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice |
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i dont gamble with cards and i dont shoot no dice |
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can you look in my face with your sightless eyes? |
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can you cross your heart and hope to die? |
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ill bring someone to life, someone for real |
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someone who feels the way that i feel |
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i study sanskrit and arabic to improve my mind |
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i wanna do things for the benefit of all my my kind |
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i say to the willow tree, "dont wait for me" |
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im saying the hell with all things that used to be |
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well, im get into trouble, then i hit the wall |
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no place to turn, no place at all |
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ill pick a number between a-one and two |
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and i ask myself, "what would julius caesar do?" |
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ill bring someone to life in more ways than one |
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dont matter how long it takes, itll be done when its done |
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im gon make you play the piano like leon russell |
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like liberace, like st. john the apostle |
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ill play every number that i can play |
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ill see you maybe on judgment day |
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after midnight, if you still wanna meet |
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ill be in black horse tavern on armageddon street |
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two doors down, not that far a walk |
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ill hear your footsteps, you wont have to knock |
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ill bring someone to life, balance the scales |
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im not gonna get involved in any insignificant details |
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you can bring it to st. peter |
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you can bring it to jerome |
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you can bring it all the way over |
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bring it all the way home |
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bring it to the corner where the children play |
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you can bring it to me on a silver tray |
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ill bring someone to life, spare no expense |
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do it with decency and common sense |
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can you tell me what it means, to be or not to be? |
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you wont get away with fooling me |
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can you help me walk that good land mile? |
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can you give me the blessings of your smile? |
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ill bring someone to life, use all of my powers |
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do it in the dark in the wee, small hours |
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i can see the history of the whole human race |
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its all right there, its carved into your face |
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should i break it all down? should i fall on my knees? |
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is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me please? |
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stand over there by the cypress tree |
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where the trojan women and children were sold into slavery |
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long before the first crusade |
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way back before england or america were made |
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step right into the burning hell |
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where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell |
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mr. freud with his dreams, mr. marx with his ax |
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see the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs |
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got the right spirit, you can feel it you can hear it |
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youve got what they call the immortal spirit |
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you can feel it all night, you can feel it in the morn |
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it creeps in your body, the day you were born |
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one strike of lightning is all that i need |
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and a blast of electricity that runs at top speed |
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shimmy your ribs, ill stick in the knife |
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gonna jump-start my creation to life |
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i wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years |
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do it with laughter and do it with tears |
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