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    1. When the Lights Go Down

    From the recording Long Way to Wander (2007)

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    been trying to put it down in rhyme since I don’t know when
    since Kerouac told me to speak up and Walt Whitman handed me the pen
    still never unscrewed it all, though
    plenty of things we’re better off to never ever know
    but I still wanna hear that secret something
    couldn’t really say what it is
    but it’s taken me all around the world
    and it keeps bringing me back to this
    bringing me back to this

    here I am after all
    just like any place it gets to feeling small
    so when the lights go down
    I slip out of the house and wander around

    I tried to chat up a lady last weekend
    but she apparently wasn’t you
    she wasn’t nearly so initially mystified by
    all the crazy things I do
    she didn’t call me a pervert
    she didn’t call me “baby”
    she didn’t call me,
    she just didn’t call me (and isn’t that life?)
    but I got a good dog named Rosco
    with light shiny fur
    he takes my mind off my lost lady
    though he could never replace her
    he could never replace her

    and here I am after all
    just like any place it gets to feeling small
    so when the lights go down
    I slip out of the house and wander around

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