It´s safe in the city, to love in a doorway
To wrangle some screens from the door
And isn´t it me, putting pain in a stranger?

Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash
Will you see that I´m scared and I´m lonely?
So I´ll break up my room, and yawn and I
Run to the centre of things
Where the knowing one says

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Boys, boys, its a sweet thing
Boys, boys, its a sweet thing, sweet thing
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
´Cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap
thing

I´m glad that you´re older than me
Makes me feel important and free
Does that make you smile, isn´t that me?
I´m in your way, and I´ll steal every moment

If his trade is a curse, then I´ll bless you
And turn to the crossroads, and hamburgers, and...

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