Number One In New York

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[Verse]
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Salvage yard scavenging, bent over backwards
    D
The caverns are vast and packed to the rafters with
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decaying corpses. Of course it's important€“.
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Pertinent details from primary sources
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The voices are louder than ever before,
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Sticking forks into four-legged horses
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Deplorable forces conspire to fire the lord
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and to hire a guy who will try to eat more of the
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portions. A guy who's more boorish,
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a guy who's more selfish, with elves as his helpers
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Hopeless hapless masses are dopes, they suppose
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It's the same old rigamarole that we know,
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It's as bold as a rodeo. Run with the bulls€“.
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All the bullshit is so, so disposable.

Open wounds, broken bones.


[Verse]
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Choking from smoking these Marlboro hundreds
   D
Dysfunctional, fuck up in front of the public
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Dublin is so far away€“ it's disgusting
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The way that these laymen conduct their discussions
         A
But it's fun to disrupt if youre cussing enough
       D
Then I call my own bluff, push my luck
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Hungry husbands are smuggling in drugs with their blood bubbling, boiling
  D
Recoil from the touch of the boys in the club
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Noise erupts from the speakers, they scream from the bleachers
D
Creatures in need of a teacher
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The reason is clear as a really bleached t-shirt
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The fever is reaching its peak.
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The deceivers are speaking of peace like it's reachable
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The evil are peeking through cracks in the steeple. Believe it, it's real.
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'Tis the season, I'm breathing in poison, chest heaving,
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Can't even conceive of the next best thing
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€œArrest these heathens! Forget the trial, lock 'em up, toss the key €
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Dot the T's, cross the I's, lots of apostrophes
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Coughing up boxes of bucks to stay lost
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in the fog of this obnoxious process
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My conscience is quiet, ensconced in the tarpit
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Cover the garden with carpet, forget and get onto the starship


[Verse]
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We're off to another dimension€“ the rent's too expensive here
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Spent my whole pension improving my penmanship
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When does it get any closer to ending?
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And can I just mention the stench?
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It's relentless when in the presence of elegant gentlemen
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The villains have taken their vengeance
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I regret to say they've collected the evidence
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Repent and pretend every entrance is open to tenants with references
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Declare myself president of the emptiness,
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Say I'm Rembrandt of dancing on the precipice
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Eleven years in and trying to stay relevant
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But based on what's left of the remnants of my intestines
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I would guess I've ingested the medicine.


[Bridge]
          Em
Yes, I've been everywhere but everywhere that I've been
          Bm
I've been out of my element, even in my own skin
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And I can't begin to think what I'd tell people back home
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So I tell it to the microphone
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I tell it to the microphone.
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I can't leave the life alone€“.
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I can't leave the life alone€“.
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I tell it to the microphone.
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I tell it to the microphone.
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I can't leave the life alone€“.
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I can't leave the life alone€“.