18 AVENUE

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Well, I rode a while for a mile or so,

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Down the road to the 18th Avenue,

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And the people I saw were the people I know,

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And they all came down to take a view,

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The path was dark and borderless,

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Down the road to the 18th Avenue,

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And it stung my tongue to re-peat the words

RE DO

That I used to use only yesterday,

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Meanings just dropped to the ground,

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I tried to re-member what I thought and what I used to say,

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Don’t let me go down, no, don’t let me go!

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Oh, my hands were tied as I struggled inside

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The empty waste of a-nother day,

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Memories were blank to my eyes,

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The fire & the glory of that night seems safely locked away,

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Too hungry to rise, oh, too hungry to...

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