Color In You Cheeks

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   She came in on the redeye to dallas-fort

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worth.  All the way from sunny taipei.

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   Skin the color of a walnut shell, And a

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baseball cap      holding down her black hair. And she came

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here    after midnight.

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     The hot weather made her feel right at home. Come on

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in,          we haven't slept for weeks. Drink some of

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this.   it'll put color in your cheeks.



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    He drove from in from mexicali, no worse for wear.

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    Money to burn,    time to kill. but

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   five minutes looking in his eyes and we all

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knew he was broken pretty bad, so we gave him what we

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had.  We cleared a space for him to sleep in, and we let the

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silence that's our trademark        make its presence felt. Come on

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in,          we haven't slept for weeks. Drink some of

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this.   it'll put color in your cheeks.


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      They came in by the dozens, walking or crawling.

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     Some were bright-eyed.      Some were dead on their feet.

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    And they came in from zimbabwe, Or from soviet,

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georgia.  East saint louis, or from paris, or they lived across the street.

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     But they came, and when they'd finally made it here, It was the

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least that we could do to make our welcome clear.  Come on

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in,          we haven't slept for weeks. Drink some of

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this.   it'll put color in your cheeks.