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 

        A   D  A                 A        D   A 
I left Rome       and landed in Brussels 
        E                               A     D   A 
On flight so bumpy that I almost cried 
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preacher men in uniform and young girls pulling mussels 
E                                      A 
Well it sure has been a long hard ride 
E                     A      D   A 
Newspaper man eating candy 
E                          A 
Had to be held down by big police 
A                    D         A 
Someday everything's gonna be different 
       E              A 
When I paint my masterpiece