When I Paint My Masterpiece

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Oh, the streets of Rome are filled
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 with rubble
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Ancient footprints are everywhere
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You can almost think that you're 
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seein' double
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On a cold, dark night on the 
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Spanish Stairs
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Got to hurry on back to my hotel 
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room
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Where I've got me a date with 
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Botticelli's niece
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She promised that she'd be right
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 there with me
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When I paint my masterpiece

Oh, the hours I've spent inside the 
Coliseum
Dodging lions and wastin' time
Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle
I could hardly stand to see 'em
Yes, it sure has been a long, hard 
climb
Train wheels runnin' through the 
back of my memory
When I ran on the hilltop following 
a pack of wild geese
Someday, everything is gonna be 
smooth like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece

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Sailin'round the world in a dirty 
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gondola
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Oh to be back in the land of Coca 
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Cola!

I left Rome and landed in Brussels
On a plane ride so bumpy that I 
almost cried
Clergymen in uniform and young girls
 pullin' muscles
Everyone was there to greet me when 
I stepped inside
Newspapermen eating candy had to be 
held down by big police Someday,
everything is gonna be different
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When I paint my masterpiece