Key: B major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
Montreal,
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I saw Leonard Cohen's house,
and that was good.
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I was speechless
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Speechless
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I went in to buy a 25 cents trash novel
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It was called Stranger In Our Midst
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And round the corner in an electrical store
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An old man looked me in the eye
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Said, son, you look speechless
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they could find their own voice.
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But as the ship sailed out into the harbour,
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I saw their homeland in their eyes,
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and I was speechless,
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speechless.
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In Philadelphia and Washington D .C.,
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the driving seat of this whole big country,
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left me speechless, speechless,
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New York, he had hit me late one night,
going
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Summin' about the subway steam
of 6th Avenue
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left me speechless
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I said speechless
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A bright shiny city all covered in lights
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And a clean girl from the Midwest
they don't need to name it twice
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And a second city wind blew
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And I was speechless
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Speechless
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San Francisco stretches itself
With white walled house
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That night we played a gig of Slims
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Not a mile from the Golden Gate,
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by the morning we were speechless
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We were all speechless
Firebird, right -hand side
up on her shoulders
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I'd thrown away the book I was
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speechless
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Speechless
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The time we hit Texas
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Our Irish skin was nearly fried
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They said America died
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Me and Liam in a diner
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speechless
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Speechless
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So, so deep in the South
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The sky was gliding over
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And the music came tumbling up
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American dream
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Speechless
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Speechless, Speechless
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Speechless, in the airport lobby
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Speechless, my life full of joy
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Speechless, a laugh in my throat
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The rain fell up and the wind blew back
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I was Speechless,
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Speechless
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the rain fell up and the wind blew back
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I was speechless, speechless,
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speechless,
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speechless, yeah, speechless
of a starving child
Matchstick arms and an old
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man's eyes
He'd watched his family slowly die
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In some forgotten corner of Africa
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because of the war
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Watching TV till late tonight
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The room was dark, the moon turned black
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The rain fell up and the wind blew back
of the American war machine
I'm speechless
And the president pleading
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Won't somebody tell me
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what we were fighting it for?
I'm speechless
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The horror still hasn't gone through
to command posts
where generals suck pencils
and order steak
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and where tv crews on leave play cards
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while we set sail as Willard's crew into darkness headed
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for its terrible heart and a horror now so easily attainable
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did no one die in Flanders field
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or not enough at Agincourt
left alive in Dresden
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for blessed memory to forget?
Take us now and take our young
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men down into the deep
Where young men before them
have suffered and died
Dreaming of their mothers
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century sacrifice we've seen before
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Those horrified faces still stare out
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Lost forever in their horror.
Maybe in years to come,
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Gulf survivors will stalk the deserts
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Seeing dead comrades' ghosts
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all aboard
And no one screams stop,
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and no one chooses to remember the horror
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For we are the hollow men,
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our heads stuffed with straw
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and we drop
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ness and we drop
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Speechless. Speechless.
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