When I Paint My Masterpiece

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Verse 1:
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Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble 
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Ancient footprints are everywhere 
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You can almost think that you're seein' 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've got me a date with A pretty little girl from Greece 
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She promised that she'd be right there with me 
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When I paint my masterpiece 

Verse 2:

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Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum 
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Dodging lions and wastin' time 
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Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle I could hardly stand to see 'em 
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Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb 
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Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory 
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When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese 
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Someday, everything is gonna sound like a rhapsody 
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When I paint my masterpiece 

Bridge 
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Sailin'round the world in a dirty gondola 
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I?d rather be back in the land of Coca Cola! 

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I left Rome and landed in Brussels 
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On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried 
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Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin' muscles 
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Everyone there to greet me when I stepped inside 
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Newspapermen eating candy 
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had to be held down by big police 
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Someday,everything is gonna be different 
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When I paint my masterpiece