(CAPO 2)
 
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tears of white and grey 
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fall upon your handle-bars and mix in with the rain. 
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oh what a day.  you'd never seen a brighter star, you'd never be the same. 
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cause when we touch, the shadow of a bicycle is no more beautiful than us.   
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so at dusk, meet me on old summer road in the autumn cold to talk. 
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kid genius, you built me a radio, said 
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when i feel alone, turn it on, and i'll find you there somewhere with a 
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tinfoil smile or like a star.   
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with no one ever there you'd laugh each time they didn't care  
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but now your sides ache and i came too late. 
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with glitter in your eyes you'd laugh each time you would've cried but 
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now your sides ache.  you laughed until the tears came.   
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and now you've gone away, and in a little room i dream of you and the picture 
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in my brain doesn't fade like the circles of a radio signal float out into space.
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and before you left you came and hung a string of lights 
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around my bike as i slept.  a sweet planet where fireflies zoom like a 
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hundred moons around your room in orbit is my wish, and  
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a ten-foot- tall mirror-ball hung from city hall.  and good magic.

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my constellation kid, i plotted the routes you'd traveled through  
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and the line i drew connecting it made a clear image of 
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a lightening bold through your childhood home, like the stories told on your wrist.   
 
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tears of white and grey. i'll never see a brighter star.