Love Song For The Birds In Our Backyard

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Just like that it was winter again here in the desert.
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In June, our house was empty. In September it's full of house guests.
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They're too punk, or I'm too punk, for words to come out
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sitting here in the living room of our beautiful, broken-down house.

[Instrumental]

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[Verse 2]

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I've been working so much lately, when I'm home I feel like a stranger
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in a foreign country where I can't speak the language
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of unemployment, minor crimes, plans to get the hell out
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I mutter fuck the police and lie down in our beautiful, broken-down house.
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[Verse 3]

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We were in the kitchen, it was the week you first moved in.
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I said, We're glad to have you. You shrugged. Well, it's here or a ditch...
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Thanks for dancing, thanks for singing, thanks for sticking around
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and making a home with us here in our beautiful, broken-down house.

[Instrumental]

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[Verse 4]

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On my days off I like to sit up on the roof and watch the traffic.
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There's my buddy Micky from the laundromat, walking by looking pretty dope sick.
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And hell, I remember that walk, but I haven't taken it for three years now.
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So Micky, come here and lie down in our beautiful, broken-down house.
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The last couple weeks I know you've been having trouble breathing
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and maybe, truthfully, trouble with most things
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but don't you worry if the pipes freeze and power goes out.
          C                                              G
We'll just be friends who are cold, in the dark, of our beautiful, broken-down house.

[Instrumental]

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[Verse 5]

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And just like that it was summer again here in Tucson.
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In March our house was a jungle, in July it's an abandoned parking lot.
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You move back to England, you move with the seasons, you move where it's hip right now.
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I say, fuck them all and lie down in our beautiful, broken-down house.
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