[Intro]
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Across from the prison and beside the great lake
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Below the rooftops and above the highways
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The spirits pay rental on the basements they haunt
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And the pages just draw pictures of the things that they want
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I cook my dinner on the blacktop street
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I come from the nation of heat
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Outside the train station there's a bold painted sign
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It says try to be patient don't forget to choose sides
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We got the loudest explosions you ever heard
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We got two dollar soldiers and ten dollar words
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If I didn't own boots I wouldn't need feet
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I come from the nation of heat
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So swift and so vicious are the carnival rides
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And the carnival barker yell your name for a bribe
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we got billboards for love and Japanese cars
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It ain't rare to hear the streetlights call themselves stars
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The more that I learn the more that I cheat
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I come from the nation of heat
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I've seen skeleton mothers and hungry folks
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Across the street from the kitchens that cook dinner for most
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Sometimes you hear whispers by the dark of the moon
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That we promised too much and gave it too soon
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Even our coughs and our fevers compete
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I come from the nation of heat
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Blockin borders with smiles are immigrant sons
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we measure loneliness and miles and misery in tons
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There's a straw-hatted man rowing away from the shore
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Who says "It's a shame they don't let you have slaves here anymore"
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I'm the ugliest man that you'll ever meet
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I come from the nation of heat