Intro
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Verse 1
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My aunt was in love, some fifty years back
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But she wouldn’t commit to crossing the tracks
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Now she lives in a tomb, packed with yesterday’s news, and won’t pick up the phone
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At a table for one in her modern American home
Verse 2
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Got Sicilian skin, Ukrainian bones
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And rent that I pay by working remote
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And since you gave me the slip, I’ve been coming to grips, if only my own
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On a bed big for one in my modern American home
Bridge
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Verse 3
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My friends have a kid, she’s turning 16
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Not bad with people, just better with machines
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One day she says Mom, meet my date for the prom—and she points to the screen
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With a silicon brain does she dream her American
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Dream in a bed of a modern American
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Table for one in a modern American home
Coda
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Angel
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Where’d you go
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You were an idiot
Em
But you were close to me
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D7
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