Look Away

I slept with Sable when she was 13

Her parents were too rich to do anything

She rocked her way around LA

'Til a New York Doll carried her away

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Now he was blond and she was dark

They called him Thunder 'cause he had the spark

The dream he dreamed was straight and pure

But the confusion of life was gonna get him for sure

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They shared their clothes and their cowboy boots

Left them all over the floor while they dyed their roots

They live the dream and they went non-stop

They did ok 'til the band broke up

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Unfortunately, the needle broke

Their rock and roll love like a bicycle spoke

I found her in a back street with her looks half gone

She was sellin' something that I was on

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Now Thunder and me did not part friends

What we did once, I wouldn't do again

So he stayed with the pure dream and followed the moon

'Til the drugs in his body made his mind a cartoon

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So a few years later, Thunder died broke

Sable had a baby back at her folks'

Me, I went straight and serious, too

There wasn't much else that I could do

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So now that I'm straight, I'm settled, too

I eat and I sleep and I work like you

I got lots of feelings, but I hold them down

That's a way I cope with this shitty town

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