the shining hour

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are we still on the phone = 20
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with lady anna clarke and her trumpet solo?
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whose ghost sings for pay
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in the blue billiard room of the monterey
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for room and for board
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and the back door key is A 19th century civil war sword
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once owned by john booth
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Am
and he misplaced his script when he caught his leather boot

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this could be the shining hour
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based on all this mad belief
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in money oil and angel powder
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in the new age magazine = 20

there = 92s a hole in the wall
behind the photograph of al capone
he = 92s sittin = 92 down at city hall
the police they peek through here
and they watch you get dressed in the two – way mirror
but it = 92s all in good spirits
and if you close eyes you can = 92t help , help but to hear = 91em move

this could be the shining hour
based on all this mad belief
in the money oil and angel powder
in the new age magazine

i propose a toast
to the memory of the horse who carried king tut and his gold
into the sun
he collapsed last summer from a heat stroke somewhere in the east = 20
village , oh = 20
and it kills me to think
that i = 92m no longer living
just looking for excuses to dink
so lift up your glass
and your ouija board = 91cause i = 92m fading , fading , fading fast