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Nameless Avenue
Take a trip down Nameless Avenue
Watch the eyes on Nowhere Street
With their mocking grins aimed your feet
As they stare at you.
Feel the rush and feel the burn
Of thousands filling needless holes
With senseless self-indulgent glows
At every turn.
Sever ties with outside worlds.
Join these streets and walk them swift.
Lose no time and fall in quick.
Watch the lovely day unfurl.
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Jim Rotund... is on his way to dine
At Mona Coffee's little shop
While all the world begins to stop
To peer in disgust at this sign
Of careless man with no regard
For how he carries on and on
With endless pockets for his lard.
'He must feel he can't belong,'
They say and prattle on and on
With pride as they're singing their songs
Of how lucky it wasn't them
To be the ones that went so wrong.
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Meet Joe Blow, the fittingest chameleon.
In these streets he can adapt
And stretch much like balloons with helium
Morphing this and changing that.
He can carry conversation
At the Ritz or subway station.
Different masks for different faces
Leave him desperate for traces
Of himself...
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Sid Gallant, chivalrous in many ways.
Known by many as "The Lover"
Girls' opinions he may sway
While behind he courts their mothers.
Fearing images are wreckable
Always he does dress impeccable
Leaving little room for doubt
That life for him is almost out.
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Tony Tuxes, known by most... he runs the show
Half the street he owns, employing half the crowd
Giving Sid and Joe and Jim a place to go.
And reimbursing them with half what they're allowed.
Not so bad though, chances are that if you holler
He'll give you the chance to earn that half a dollar.
Tony Tuxes, business bloke, and nothing smaller.
Half a man... half a robot... half a scholar.
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Welcome to our Avenue.
Every morning eager faces
Step onto the scene...
Every evening leaving traces
Lifeless as their dreams...
