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Last time I saw richard was Detroit in 68 / And told me

all romantics meet the same fate / someday, cynical and bitter and
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boring someone / In some dark café / You laugh, he said you
                      Am
think you're immune, / Go look at your eyes / They're full of moon /
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You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you / All those pretty
             C/G                                     F
lies, pretty lies / When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies /
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Only pretty lies, pretty lies /          He put a quarter in the
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wurlitzer, and he pushed / Three buttons and the thing began to whirl /

And a waitress came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie / and she
               G
said "drink up now it's getting on time to close" / "Richard, you haven't
                                     Am
really changed", I said / It's just that now you're romanticizing some pain

that's in your head / You've got tombs in your in eyes, but the songs / you
                G                                     C/G
punched are dreaming / Listen, they talk of love so sweet / When you
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gonna get back on your feet? / Oh and love can be so
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sweet, love so sweet /          Richard got married to a figure
                Am
skater / And he bought her a dish washer and a coffe percolator /

And he drinks at home now most night with the TV on / And all the
                     G
house lights left up bright / I'm gonna blow this dam candle out / I
             Am
don't want nobody, comin'over to my table / I got nothing to talk to

anybody about / All good dreamer pass this away someday / Hidin'
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behind bottles in dark cafes / Dark cafes / Only this darkness before
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I get my gorgeous wings / And fly away / Only a phase, these dark
     D   (Riff 1)  C G/B Am Em
cafe days