Tonalidad: A minor
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I had a basement flat
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off Portobello Road
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in my cowboy hat
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down the Grove I strode
with my buckled boots
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and my blue striped pants
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I knew how to groove
I didn't know how to dance
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I wore a teenage rockabilly
coat from Johnstons
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My head full of lyrics, wonder
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love and magic,
stuff and nonsense
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Verse 2
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the counter- culture was fading
but echoed everywhere
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rastas promenading
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reefer smoke on the air
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behind my wooden door
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I'd blast out my sounds
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on my back on the floor
with the lights all down
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like Dorothy adrift
in the land of Oz
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sometimes I'd open my eyes
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and wonder where the hell I was
Verse 3
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I was in love with a girl
I saw one afternoon
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wearing duffle coat and pearls
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in the middle of June
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Nikki Sudden would call
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in his velvet and tat
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and sleep in my spare room
and wear my spare hat
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As carnival approached
the pot got stronger
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reggae sound systems fired up
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on every crumbling street corner
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Verse 4
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I remember a hot
sticky summer night
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I was in a sweet spot
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I was hungry to write
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the sound systems roared
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they made the houses shake
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my 'magination soared
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and like a storm that breaks
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Sav age Earth Heart
tumbled through my brain
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a bolt or a download
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from another wilder,
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higher plane
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Verse 5
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landlord sold my place
needed the cash I suppose
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and I left in haste
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the day between shows
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I packed everything up
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in one night,
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it's the truth
didn't even sleep
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that's the power of youth
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on the bus next morning
and away we drove
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nev er said a proper
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so long and thankyou baby
Verse 6
to my beloved Ladbroke Grove
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I tried moving back
when an age had passed
the stage was still intact
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only with a different cast
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in a different play
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a whole new pantomime
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and I was just in the way
and I was way out of time
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some things I guess you
ain't meant to repeat
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I retired to lick my wounds
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and scheme again
Outro 1
on some other street
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