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Downtown the nights are drawing in real fast.
It looks like winter's here to stay.
The two cents bucks are trying to bum a dime tonight
For the girls they know'll do it anyway.
Gypsy Gina she's got a scar above her breast,
An' it zig zags 'til it ends down in her spleen,
But it doesn't seem to matter as she walks out in the rain.
It's all she's ever done an' she started at thirteen.
Don' it make it hard to see that all through life's long history
A dark night comes with every bright new day.
Sometimes the world seems upside down,
Where good is bad an' right is wrong,
But the silent voices in the wind just say
It doesn't matter anyway.
Down at the river where the rat's his only friend
Joey hates it but he's just to old to change.
He makes his bed up 'neath as disused railway bridge,
An' he says a prayer "please Lord don't make it rain".
Margaret took her last long breath after giving birth to Jim.
Joey swore he's always stay at that kids side.
But ten years on he lost him in an accident.
Now all he wants to do to keep that promise is to die.
Don' it make it hard to see that all through life's long history
A dark night comes with every bright new day.
Sometimes the world seems upside down,
Where good is bad an' right is wrong,
But the silent voices in the wind just say
It doesn't matter anyway.
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