Grateful Dead - When I Paint My Masterpiece

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oh , the streets of rome
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are filled with rubble
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ancient footprints are everywhere
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you can almost think that you’re seeing double
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on a cold dark night on the spanish stairs

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got to hurry on back to my hotel room
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where i got me a date with botticelli’s niece
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yeah , she promised that she’d be there with me
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when i paint my masterpiece

all the hours i spent inside the coliseum
dodging lions and wasting time
oh these mighty kings of the jungle i can hardly stand to see’em
yes , it sure has been a long hard climb

train wheels rolling through the back of my memory
when i stood on a hilltop following a pack of wild geese
someday life will be sweet like a rhapsody
when i paint my masterpiece

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i left rome and landed in brussels
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on flight so bumpy that i almost cried
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preacher men in uniform and young girls pulling mussels
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well it sure has been a long hard ride
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newspaper man eating candy
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had to be held down by big police
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someday everything’s gonna be different
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when i paint my masterpiece