Random Rules

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In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection 
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Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction 
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Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake 
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I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake 



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I know you like to line dance 
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Everything so democratic and cool 
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But, baby, there's no guidance when random rules 


 
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I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls 
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Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls 
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But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed 
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And that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said: 



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"Yeah, you look like someone 
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Yeah, you look like someone who up and left me low 
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Boy, you look like someone I used to know" 

 

 
Dm                  F 
I know you'd like to line dance 
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With everything so democratic and cool 
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But, baby, there's no guidance when random rules 


 
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I asked the painter why the roads are colored black 
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He said, "Steve, it's because people leave 
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And no highway will bring them back" 
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So if you don't want me, I promise not to linger 
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But before I go, I've gotta ask you, dear, about that tan line on your ring finger 


Outro 
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No one should have two lives 
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Now you know my middle names are Wrong and Right 
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Honey, we've got two lives to give tonight 
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To give tonight 
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To give tonight 
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh