New Amsterdam

You're sending me tulips mistaken for lilies

You give me a look that the function is silly

You turn my head till it roll down the brain-drain

If I had any sense now I wouldn't want it back again



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New Amsterdam it's become much too much

'Til I have the possession of everything she touches

'Til I step on the brake to get out of her clutches

'Til I speak double dutch to a real double duchess



Down on the main spring listen to the tick-tock

Collect all the faces that move in your lot

Twice-shy and dog-tied because you've been bitten

Everything you say now sounds like it was ghost-written



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Back in london they'll take you to heart after a little while

Though I look right at home I still feel like an exile



Somehow I found myself down at the dockside

Thinking about the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhide

Transparent people who live on the other side

Living a life that is almost like suicide



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