**CAPO 2**
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He cut your strings so that he could float
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- lit by lights, lifted by alcohol
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- over acres of loving coast,
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far away from your lonely ghost.
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Now he?s cool and all,
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floating anchorless. Ports of call:
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where it?s fabulous, after all
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of this watching himself just crawl.
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Think you see him?
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He?s not there,
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that?s just light
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that?s not yet dead.
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Wait two hours
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and watch what?ll be there instead.
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Was he small and cold,
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like a ring you call up from home,
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held so tightly his limbs went numb,
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worn away between your finger and thumb?
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Well, now he?s bought and sold.
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Cry his call number down the phone,
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he can?t hear you ? he?s on his float,
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waving down to the folks at home.
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Think you see him?
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He?s not there,
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that?s just light
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that?s not yet dead.
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Wait two hours
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and watch what?ll be there instead.
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As the cameras love all of his faces,
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they hide all the traces of you in his heart.
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Stand in line to hold forth on his grace,
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but you won?t even get a head-start,
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Get a head start
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As his close-up comes
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cascading down from above,
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the eyes of a nation in love
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are looking on all of their hopes
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held up.
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And the words that some
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screenwriter counted and chose,
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and then set in their sequence and froze,
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unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks
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for all of us
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but one.
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And honey, he?s gone.
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And baby, he?s everyone?s.
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In the dark sky tonight,
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cast your eyes
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on the dim light
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that he will become.
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You?re like everyone
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Who thinks they see him
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He?s not there,
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that?s just light
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that?s not yet dead.
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Wait two hours
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and watch what?ll be there instead.
