Key: A major
Verse 1
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The night my baby left me
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I crossed the bridge to Juarez avenue
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Like that movie "Touch of evil" I got the Orson Wells,
Where Orson walks in to
the whore house and
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Marlene says "Man, you look like hell"
And Orson's chewing on
a chocolate bar
"down inside the tea leaves of your cup"
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And she says "You ain't
Verse 2
touch me anymore? Why
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Verse 3
And I grew near those dead canals
Now I'm thinking about the movie,
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the bar I'm in, the bridge, the Rio Grande
Now I'm thinking about my baby and the
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borderline 'tween a woman and a man
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I was screaming "Baby,
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Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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someone rolled the credits
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on twenty years of love turned dark and raw
Not a technicolor love film,
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it's a brutal document, it's film noir
And it's all played out on a borderline
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and the actors are tragically miscast
Like a Mexican burlesque show where the
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characters are wearing comic masks
Outro 1
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