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| The | stories of the | street are mine, the | Spanish voices | laugh |
| Em | G | Bm | F#m | |
| The | Cadillacs go cr | eeping now through the | night and the poison | gas, |
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| and | I lean from my | window sill in this | old hotel I | chose, |
| B | E | B | A | E | Em | |
| yes | one hand on my | suicide, | one hand on the | rose |
| I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come, |
| the cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone |
| But let me ask you one more time, O children of the dusk, |
| All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us? |
| And where do all these highways go, now that we are free? |
| Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me? |
| O lady with your legs so fine O stranger at your wheel, |
| You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal |
| The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask |
| the nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass |
| And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite, |
| and one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night |
| O come with me my little one, we will find that farm |
| and grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm |
| And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am, |
| O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb |
| With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl |
| I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world |
| We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky, |
| and lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye |