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He likes to have the morning paper's crossword solved    hey
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Words go up words come down Forwards backwards twisted round     hey
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He grabs a pile of letters From a small suitcase
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Disappears into an office It's another working day
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And his thou.....ghts are full of strangers
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Corridors      of naked lights    And his
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mind      once full of reason     Now there's
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mo...re    than meets the eye    Now a   stranger's face he carries with him
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He likes a bit of reading On the subway home  ooh oooh ooh
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A distant radio's whistling tunes That nobody knows     hm
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At home a house awaits him he unlocks the door
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Thinking once there was a sea here but there never was a door
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And his thou....ghts are full of strangers
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And his eyes      too numb to see
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And nothing       that he knows of
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And no........where where he's been      wa..s   never quite like this
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yeah!
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            he!             oh oh           oh oh       and his
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thou.....ghts are full of strangers
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Corridors      of naked lights    And his
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mind      once full of reason     Now there's
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mo...re    than meets the eye    Now  a  stranger's face he carries with him
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                          and at
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hea.....rt he's full of strangers        dodging
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on         his train of thought        train of
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thought

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