I Must Belong Somewhere

Leave the bright blue door on the white-washed wall
 Leave the death ledger under city hall
 Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today
 Just leave the lilac print on the linen sheet
 Leave the bird you killed at your father's feet
 Let the sideways rain in the crooked street remain
 Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel
 Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal
 Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today
 Leave the sad guitar in its hard-shell case
 Leave the worried look on your lover's face
 Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain
 'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
 The train off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs
 Everything, it must belong somewhere
 I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
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 Leave the ocean's roar in that turquoise shell
 Leave the widower in his private hell
 Leave the liberty in that broken bell today
 Just leave the epic poem on its yellowed page
 Leave the grey macaw in his covered cage
 Let the travelling band on the interstate remain
 'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
 Sound-stage in California, televisions in Times Square, yeah
 Everything must belong somewhere
 I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
 Well, I know that now that's why I'm staying here
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 Leave the secret talk on the trundle bed
 Leave the garden tools in the rusted shed
 Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today
 Just leave the restless ghost in his old hotel
 Leave the homeless man out in that cardboard cell
 Let the painted horse on the carousel remain
 'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
 Just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair
 Yeah, everything, it must belong somewhere
 I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
 Oh, I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
 In truth, the forest hears each sound
 Each blade of grass as it lies down
 The world requires no audience
 No witnesses, no witnesses
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 Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool
 Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool
 Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today
 Leave the novelist in his daydream tune
 Leave the scientist in her rubik's cube
 Let the true genius in the padded room remain
 Leave the horses hair on the slanted bow
 Leave the slot machines on the riverboat
 Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today
 Just leave the hot bright trash in their shopping malls
 Leave the hawks of war in their capitals
 Let the organs moan in the cathedral remain
 'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
 They lock the devil in the basement, threw God up into the air
 Yeah, everything, it must belong somewhere
 You know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here
 Now you know it's true, why don't you leave me here?