A Song To Pass The Time

There's a middle-aged woman
 She's dragging her feet
 She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat
 While the Mexican children
 Kick rocks into the street
 And they laugh in a language I don't understand
 But I love them
 Why do I love them?
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 So the neighborhood's dimming
 I smoke on the porch,
 Watch the people as they pass enclosed inside their cars
 On their faces just anger or disappointment
 I start wishing there was something I could offer them
 Consolation, what could I offer them?
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 And they are sad in their suburbs
 Robots water the lawn
 And everything they touch gets dusted spotless
 And so they start to believe
 They've not touched anything at all
 And the cars in the driveway only multiply
 Well, they are lost in their houses
 I've heard them sing in the showers
 Making speeches to their sister on the telephone
 Saying, "You come home, woman, you come here,
 Don't stay so far away from me."
 This weather has me wanting love more tangible
 Something I can hold
 'Cause it's getting cold
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 Well I say, hold up our fists to the flame in the sky
 To block out the light that's reaching for our eyes
 'Cause it, 'cause it would blind us.
 Yeah, it will blind us
 Well, I've locked my actions
 In the grooves of routine
 So I may never be free of this apathy
 But I wait for a letter that's coming to me
 She sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelope
 So there still is hope
 Yes, I can be healed
 There is someone looking for what I've concealed
 In my secret drawer
 In my pockets deep
 You will find the reasons that I can't sleep
 And you will still want me
 But will you still want me?
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 Will you still want me?
 Well I said, "Come for the week,
 You can sleep in my bed
 And pass through my life
 Like a dream through my head
 It will, it will be easy
 I'll make it easy."
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 But, all I have for the moment is a song to pass the time
 And a melody to keep me from worrying
 Some simple progression to keep my fingers busy,
 And words that are sure to come back to me
 And they'll be laughing
 And they'll be laughing
 My mediocrity, my mediocrity
 Yeah, they'll be laughing
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 Yeah, they'll be laughing
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 They will be laughing