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Spiders spin their webs, across the tower gates
At the top the princess’s hair, still doesn’t reach her waist
At the end of the pier, staring out across the moonlit bay
There’s an old man dressed in rags, trying to remember every wave
Liza’s on the street, waiting for an actor to call
Swallows fly past an abandoned city hall
She says when I fell for him, I broke my neck
And now he’s sleeping; now he’s sleeping in somebody else’s bed
They’ve boarded up the coal mines early, gone into town for a drink
When there’s worse than being out of work, nobody cares what the foreman thinks
Washing lines hang across the city, grapes drying in the midday sun
Let off some steam in the bathhouse, or in the ruins of one
Kings on his throne, shifting under death’s hard glare
But you can’t hide in a palace, you can’t hide anywhere
And every hand you’re ever dealt was already fixed
By the man with the expensive shoes, expensive shoes, and cheap tricks
Take me as I am, you say, but I don’t know what you are
Take me for a ride on the back of your horse-drawn star
And we’ll take it as we find it; I ain’t saying I’ll be your man
Fate put us together, fate put us together, but I got my own plans
Planets and stars spinning, like on a ballroom floor
Comet coming down the stairs, got nothing but fire on
Across the busy marketplace, urchin with a two-tailed coin
Sweeping up glass outside a pharmacy, until the glass is gone
Liza’s on the street, throwing love letters in the wind
She doesn’t know how to stop; she only knows how to begin
She says, that it was Judas taught the world to kiss
How could he leave me, how could he leave me, alone like this?
They got seaweed up in the taverns, flood coming in from the east
Mother Nature cares nothing for war, but neither nothing for peace
Some take pleasure in sorrow, others in winter bliss
It’s all about the life you hit boy, and not the life you miss
Town crier’s in the rain, dreaming of the end of days
Nobody’s listening, but he’ll shout it anyway
And every card he was ever dealt, had the devil’s mark
Burning diamonds, burning diamonds, and broken hearts
Take me as I am she said, but I didn’t know what she was
The world doesn’t revolve around me, but my world does
And I take it and I leave it, and maybe I leave you too
But I wanted you then, I wanted you then, ain’t that good enough for you
Lets just take it as we find it; I ain’t saying I’ll be your man
Fate put us together, fate put us together, but I got my own plans
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