If you ever

Had a shoe sole floppin

Got chased outside cause mom was moppin

Her worn Curled linoleum

Stepped in a cold wet puddle

A soaked newspaper patch bout a bank robbery

fillin that hole in your sneaker

Learned how to hide

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If you ever

Was just plain ol broke without noticin

Or remember the brand of your first time smokin

Slept on a fire escape

On a scorched summer night

Above a street where you played all day

Played all day

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If you ever

Was forever

 bought dad pall mall

But called it pell mell

Lived on the block

Played in the street

Went to bed with dirty feet

smelled your feet

if you ever

watched cockeyed nick

in a sailor cap

curse the dice under a neon bar sign

with a can of ballantine

or harmless ol pancho

or some such other drunk

chase all the kids laughin

was a kid laughin

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                                               you fell into

                                                    senior prom

                                                         uncle tom

                                                              viet nam

                                                                   cd rom

                                                                      senile mom

                                                                         bought the farm

                                                                             drop the bomb

into your arm

          sound the alarm

                       for the foaming imam

hmmmm

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makes ya wanna

                                                                        move to the country

                                                                           to sip it all in

                                                                wedgewood china

                                                        fine-cracked and frail

                                               lap your tea over bridges

                                             pinky up turn the wheel

                                                       take a drive in your automobile

                                                                           interesting times indeed

                                                                       erase every face at cyberspeed

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