Key: G
Introduction: G
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Last time I saw richard was Detroit in 68 / And told me
all romantics meet the same fate / Some day, cynical and drunk and
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boring someone / In some dark café / You laugh, he said you
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You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you / All those pretty
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lies, pretty lies / When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies /
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Only pretty lies, pretty lies / He put a quarter in the
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wurlitzer, and he pushed / Three button sand the thing began to whirl /
And a barmaid came by a fishnet stockings and a bow tie / And she
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said drink up now it's getting on time to close / Richard, haven't
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really changed, I said / Is she that now will romantic sizing some pain
that's see in head / You've got tombs in your in eye, but the songs / You
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punched are dreaming / Listen, they talk of love so sweet / When you
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gonna get yourself back on your feet? / Oh and love can be so
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sweet, love so sweet / Richard got married to a figure
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skater / And he bought her a dish was her and a coffe percolator /
And he drinks at home now most night with the TV on / And all the
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house lights left up bright / I'm gonna blow this dam candle out / I
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don't want nobody, comin'over to my table / I go nothing to talk to
anybody about / All good dreamer pass this away someday / Hidin'
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behind bottles in dark café / Dark cafes / Only a dark coccon before
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I get my gorgeous wings / And fly away / Only a phase, these dark
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cafe days