The Airborne Toxic Event – Hollywood Park (Guitar)

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A73-581 was the number

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They burned it in my brain, I could feel it in my veins

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We could run, we could run, we could run

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We were running away

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The fourteen dollars I made on the bus ride 

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From Chino, I laid it on the third

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He was due and I was due, for a change, for a change

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I’m tired of living a lie

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And they were writing their names up in the sky

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And we would watch them as they brought the horses by

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And I felt like I was ready to die

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When the bell went off and the races would start

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For fifteen years I had lived in a room

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With my heart on my sleeve, and my throat dry

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From heaving the words "you can change, you can change"

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"If you’re ready to try"

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And we would laugh as the horses thundered by

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And I would tip my brand new hat up to the sky

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And nothing could come between you and I

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As the horses ran wild through the dark

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At Hollywood Park

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And when they tore it down, there was a wrecking sound

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And it rattled through my bones

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And a cry went out through the streets that night

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'Cause we knew we'd lost our home

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And there's only the wreckage and this dirt still on my hands

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And the roar of their ghosts as they stood up in the stands

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Where do we go?

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Who are all of these voices I've never heard?

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And what becomes of us now?

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Buried in concrete and broken earth

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As I stare out from the highway at these miles and miles of graves

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And the convenience stores and corner malls, all the countless roads they paved

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Yeah I wonder if it’s lucky, or if you just forget the cost

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Or the price of the admission for all the endless bets you lost

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In fifty years I will dream of this moment from a bed, tired from lifting my leg

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Tired from drifting around, through the dust, through the dust

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And all the time that I would spend

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But I never claimed I knew how this would end

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Or the order of the horses at the bend

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All I knew is I would be back again

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And we’d stand here as the world fell apart

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At Hollywood Park