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shakedown 1979

cool kids never have the time

on a livewire right up off the street

you and i should meet



junebug skipping like a stone

with the headlights pointed at the dawn

we were sure we'd never see an end to it all



and i don't even care

to shake these zipper blues

and we don't know

just where our bones will rest

to dust, i guess

forgotten and absorbed into the earth below



double cross the vacant and the bored

they're not sure just what we have in store

morphine city slippin' dues down to see



that we don't even care

as restless as we are

we feel the pull

in the land of a thousand guilts

and poured cement

lamented and assured to the lights

and towns below

faster than the speed of sound

faster than we thought we'd go

beneath the sound of hope



justine never knew the rules

hung down with the freaks and ghouls

no apologies ever need be made

cause' i know you better than you fake it to see



that we don't even care

to shake these zipper blues

and we don't know

just where our bones will rest

to dust, i guess

forgotten and absorbed into the earth below



the street heats the urgency of now

as you can see there's no one around


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