Mr. Jones

	  		
  

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 sha   la la la la la la    

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 I was down at the New Amsterdam    
    
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 staring at this yellow haired girl    
    
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Mr. Jones strikes up this conversation    
    
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whith this black haired flamenco dancer    
    
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 She dances while his father playes guitar.    
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She's suddenly beautiful    
    
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We all want something beautiful    
    
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 I wish I was beautiful    
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So come dance this silence down through the morning.    
    
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  sha la la la la la    
    
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  Uh, huh...    
    
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  Cut up Mariea!    
    
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Show me some of them spanish dances.    
    
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  Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones    
    
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  Believe in me    
    
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 Help me believe in anything    
    
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(cause) I want to be someone who believes    
    

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Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales    
    
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 Stare at the beautiful women    
    
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She's looking at you.  Ah no, no she's looking at me.    
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Smiling in the bright lights    
    
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 Comming through in sterio    
    
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 When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely    


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 I will paint my picture    
    
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Paint my self in blue and red and black and grey    
    
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 All of the beautiful colors are very very meaninful    
    
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(You know) Grey is my favorite color    
    
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 I felt so symbolic yesterday    
    
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 If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a grey guitar and play    


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 Mr. Jones and me look into the future    
    
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 Stare at the beautiful women    
    
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She's looking at you.  Uh, I don't think so.  She's looking at me.    
    
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 Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a grey guitar    
    
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 When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely    
    

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I will never be lonley    
    
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 I will never be lonley    
    
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 I want to be a lion    
    
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 Everybody wants to pass as cats    
    
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 We all want to be big big stars,    
    
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 But we got diffrent reasons for that.    
    
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 Believe in me because    
    
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 I don't believe in anything    
    
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 And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.    

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 Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio    
    
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 Yeah we stare at the beautiful women    
    
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 She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be Somebody for me.    
    
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 I want to be Bob Dylan     
    
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 Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky    
    
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 When everybody loves you, son,    
    
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 that's just about as funky as you can be.    
    
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 Mr. Jones and me staring at the video    
    
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 When I look at the television,    
    
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 I want to see me staring right back at me.    
    
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 We all want to be big stars,    
    
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but we don't know why, and we don't know how.    
    
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 But when everybody loves me,    
    
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I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be.    
    
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 Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars...