Key: D
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One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
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Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
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Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
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Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat
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And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
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With a love so hard and filled with defeat
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backstreets
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Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing
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Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
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Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring
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In the deep heart of the night we could loose from everything
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to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets
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Terry you swore we'd live forever
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together
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Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
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Where dancers scraped the tears up off the streets dressed down in rags
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Running into the darkness some hurt bad some really dying
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At night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying
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Blame it on the lies that killed us blame it on the truth that ran us down
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You can blame it all on me Terry it don't matter to me now
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When the breakdown hit at midnight there was nothing left to say
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But I hated him and I hated you when you went away