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Stealing The Night or Airplane Rage
Under soft quivvering lights
Shifting probing downside neon
Click to click of heels
Scream of hot wheeling dealing
Stealing the night away
Scratch...
Scratch the polished tidy legal surface
And we are there
Under the silent calm jealous rage
Of the subtle average citizen
Scratch...
An airplane not destined to crash soonish
Flashed over hamburger on grill tonight
Scratch...
A hite light across his brow
As the door slams
And the embers of a charcol goodbye kiss
Linger in his ear briefly
Stealing the night away
Scratch...
Scratch the ends of time's flickering candle
And we are there
Over the torrets of age and hard wage
Of the subtle averate citizen
Scratch...
An airplane not carrying dignitaries
Flashed over hamburger with cheese tonight
Scratch...
Age and hard wage ave washed
All the youth from his tan pilot's hands that grip
The L-1011 and sling it through the air yet again
And he thinks, "I shouldn't have voted for Reagan..."
Over soft shimmering lights
