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These days

I was walking

around, just a face in the crowd
Trying to keep myself out of the rain
Saw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam

crown
Wondered if I might end up the same
There's a man out on the corner, singing old songs about

change
Everybody's got their cross to bear these days

She came looking for some shelter with a suitcase full of

dreams
To a motel room on the boulevard
I guess she's trying to be James Dean
She's seen all the disciples and

all the wanna-be's
No one wants to be themselves these days
Still there's nothing to hold on to but these

days

[Coro]
These days - the stars seem out of reach
These days - there ain't a ladder on the

streets
These days - are fast, love don't last in this graceless age
There ain't anybody left but but us these

days

Jimmy Shoes busted both his legs, trying to learn to fly
From a second storey window, he just jumped and

closed his eyes
His mamma said he was crazy - he said "Mamma I've got to try,
Don't you know that all my heroes

died
And I guess I'd rather die than fade away"

[Coro]
These days - the stars seem out of reach
But these

days - there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days - are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age
Even innocence

has caught the midnight train
And there ain't anybody left but but us these days

I know Rome's still

burning
Though the times have changed
This world keeps turning round and round and round and round
These

days

[Coro]
These days - the stars seem out of reach
But these days - there ain't a ladder on the

streets
These days - are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age
Even innocence has caught the midnight

train
And there ain't anybody left but but us these days

These days - the stars seem out of reach
These days

- there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days - are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age
There ain't no

time to waste
There ain't anybody left to take the blame
And there ain't anybody left but but us these

days
There ain't anybody left but but us these days