Father John Misty – The Next 20Th Century (Guitar)

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    The nazis that we hired for our    wedding   band

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    Played   your anthem like I wasn’t there for the    father/daughter dance

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    From the   boondocks of Egypt to the nosebleeds at Calvary

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    Recite your   history of oppression, babe, while    you are under me

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There’s no doubting the devotion my ancestors had for yours

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Now we’ve got all the love to pay for like a thousand different wars

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    A square foot of empire around the peep show slot

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    I see an   avatar of mercy with the same damn    jeembles that I've got

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    The boss   wants to be anonymous, the talent wants to be seen

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    We weren’t   paying for your body, Lord, we were    paying you to leave

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Now, who will watch the chorus line stretching from   Reno to Rome?

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Listen, Cherry, I know you love me, but say you love me before you go

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    Val Kilmer had a wall-length mirror just over there

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    Well, I’m   sure he’s someone else now, but he was Batman when he lived here

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    Maybe he’s   Yankee Zulu just waiting for the flood

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    And   maybe Mac the Conqueror with the    severed head of love

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I’ve seen him wearing aviators and a   black baseball hat

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Stalking airports across the bardo quiet   as a wildcat

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    The wheel is turning from night into day

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    Everything’s in transition,    everything must change

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    But none of us here will ever see the promised land

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    None of us here will be there for    childhood's end

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I see you, you student debtors in the watchtower overhead

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Searchin' for headlights in the driveway crying "Dad, look what they did"

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Just look,    even their romance made us   masters and slaves

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And now things keep getting worse while staying so   eerily the same

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Come build your burial grounds on our burial grounds, but you won’t kill death that way

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I don’t know about you, but I’ll take the love songs

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And give you the future in exchange

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I don’t know about you, but I’ll take the love songs

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If this century’s here to stay

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I don’t know about you, but I’ll take the love songs

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And the great distance that they came