1979

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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  Shakedown nineteen seventy nine,
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  Cool kids never have the time
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On a  live wire right up off the street
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You and I  should meet

[Verse 2]
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  Junebug skipping like a stone
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With the  headlights pointed at the dawn
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  We were sure we'd never see an end  to it all

[Chorus]
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And I  (I) don't even care  to shake these zipper blues
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And we don't know  just where our bones will rest  (rest)
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To dust I guess  forgotten and absorbed  into the
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earth  below

[Verse 3]
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Ab                                     Eb
  Double cross the vacant and the bored
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  They're not sure just what we have in store
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  Morphine city slipping dues down to see

[Chorus]
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That we  (we) don't even care  as restless as we are
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We feel the pull  in the land of a thousand
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guilts  (guilts)
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And poured cement,  lamented and assured

[Bridge]
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To the lights and towns  (towns) below
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Faster than the speed  (speed) of sound
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Fast(fast)er than we thought  we'd go,
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  beneath  the sound  of hope

[Verse 4]
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  Justine never knew the rules,
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  Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
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No apologies ever need be made,
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  I know you better than you fake        it
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To see  that

[Chorus]
  Eb                    Ab                           Eb
We  (we) don't even care  to shake these zipper blues
                 Ab                              Eb
And we don't know  just where our bones will rest  (rest)
               Ab                      Fm
To dust I guess  forgotten and absorbed  to the
     Bb     Eb
earth  below

[Verse 5]
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  The street heats the urgency of now
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  As you see there's no one around