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lyrics

After work, when Tommy calls
I’m waiting on the subway car.
Say Tommy, how you doing?
Is there anything you’re getting into?
Tommy says it’s been a day,
and he’s wondering if there’s any way
a body could just float away tonight.
And I say, Tommy, I can think of one or two,
and I’ll be at your place in 5.

So Tommy calls up Janey too
and Janey calls up Cindy Xu
and Cindy’s older brother
buys us liquor from the corner store.
Soon the snow is falling
and we’re all in Tom’s apartment
And the world is a distant place
that we don’t have to go today

Tommy’s singing “oh, hey hey, my my
Better to burn out, then to fade
my my dear friends”

Must have been past two or three
when Tom had his epiphany
“You know there’s nothing that we need
except the ones we love”
And Janey laughed and she said Tom,
you’re really on to something man
Well you should probably write a book,
but Tom just laughed it off and
started singing “oh, hey hey, my my,
oh I’ve got nothing to do today but smile”

Everybody fell asleep after dawn,
Tommy’s head on my knees, Janey’s head on my shoulder
I was thinking about the snow on the lawn,
I was thinking about the songs we used to sing
“Hey, you’ve to hide your love away
Hey, you’ve got to hide your…”

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from Hail Bohemia, released May 17, 2023

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John Shakespear writes albums that tell a story from start to finish. The next one, 'Hail Bohemia,' comes out on May 17.

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