Jewel – Long Slow Slide (Guitar)

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Lights are bright in the circus

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The geeks and the freaks all light cigarettes and laugh at your misery

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While the weight of the curtain closing crushes your heart

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The inertia of loneliness tears your flesh apart

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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Down

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Once the neon is gone

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There's still that golden splinter at your side

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His manners are charming, but who are you fooling? You are still nobody's bride

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And Bukowski's widow haunts each empty seat on the ferris wheel

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As ghoulish lovers collide in a collage of kisses that they steal

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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Down

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And outside the window the circus crackles and lurches with rings of smoke

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You laugh halfheartedly at the punchline, not realizing they've made you the joke

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And inside my heart a war is raging in regions still untamed

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The worst fear I can imagine is for the mystery to be named

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Is for the mystery to be named

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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It's a long slow slide

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Down