1955

Intro:
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Tom Thum:
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"If you're feeling low then give it a go! Try Lambert's Sniffing Salts today"

Suffa:
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You know when you're doing a song about a small town
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You gotta start it with a cliche, you know what I'm sayin' like

Verse:
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Time moves a little slower here
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The paint peels 'cause the summers here are so severe
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And we're nowhere near no where you would know of
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Locals here pride, they show up just to show off
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Four men take a load off, just to watch the day go by
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Philosophizing with their friends like they're Plato
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They prophecize on the bench by the main road, right
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They got advice; I'm like 'Ayo, if you say so guys'
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But what do they know, Fox News got 'em lit
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They're shockers, fundamentalists, the new communists
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A girl with a shopping list, clutch her handbag close
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I'm like "damn man" then it's all backhands, jokes
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'Cause I'm a gentlemen, but then again most of are
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First name basis in the bank, the post-office, the bar
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The grocery, parks, hey lady I ain't tryna grab your pension
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The old men on the bench hum

Instrumental: A E B Dbm A E B

Tom Thum:
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"Direct from the transistor radio in your lounge room.It's the entertainment that the whole family can enjoy."
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"Well I say looking slick will do the trick so try Barry's Brylcreem cream today!"

Montaigne & Suffa:
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Well lets go, lets go
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We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
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"What a time to be alive"
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But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
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'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
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It's like we ride through life
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Right in the shadow of the cold war
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It gets so quiet at night
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Like martial law took a hold of '55.

Suffa:
      E
Time moves a little slower here
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A day feels like a week, a weekend feels like it could go a year
A                       E
And we're nowhere near nothing, man it's so true
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I don't tell 'em where I'm from, I tell 'em where I'm close to
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And I can go through an Atlas and show you on a map but
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You'd still look me sideways and treat me like I'm backwards
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But that's just fine, it so happens I'm
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Happy living in a city that is trapped in time
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While you're lined up in traffic I'm
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Not panicked 'bout transit, I'm back in time
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For a TV dinner and an early night
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'Cause we get dressed to travel, got an early flight
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Been doing laps of the earth while doing laps of the sun
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Tryna put where I'm at on the map 'cause where I'm from
A                                E
Would never get a mention, but all that and then some
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Once again the old men on the bench hum

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Tom Thum:
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"And across the country they came in waves. Thousands upon thousands of flying discs
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descending from the planet Mars."
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"For the closest shave try a Wilson's razor today."

Montaigne & Suffa:
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Well lets go, lets go
A                             E
We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
B                  Dbm
"What a time to be alive"
A                            E
But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
B                      Dbm
'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
A                      E
It's like we ride through life
 B                    Dbm
Right in the shadow of the cold war
    A                  E
It gets so quiet at night
    B                           A
Like martial law took a hold of '55

Montaigne:
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Where I go, where I go
                    B    Dbm
This will always be home, no matter
A                   E
Where I go, where I go
                    B    Dbm
This will always be home, no matter
A                   E
Where I go, where I go
                    B   Dbm
This will always be home, no matter
A                  E
Where I go, where I go
                  B
This will always be home

Instrumental: A  E  B  Dbm A E B

Tom Thum:
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"If you can't beat the summer heat then what you need is a Wordell's. Wordell
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Refrigerators: the cooler choice."
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"The dieting revolution taking the world by storm."

Montaigne & Suffa:

Well Montaigne lets go
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We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
B                   Dbm
"What a time to be alive"
A                                E
But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
B                             Dbm
'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
A                        E
It's like we ride through life
B                          Dbm
Right in the shadow of the cold war
A                   E
It gets so quiet at night
B                              A           E                  B
Like martial law took a hold of '55