Intro
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[Verse 1]
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All through the summers, into January
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I've been visiting morgues and monasteries
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Looking for the necessary body parts
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Limbs and livers and brains and hearts
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I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do
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I wanna create my own version of you
[Verse 2]
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Well, it must be the winter of my discontent
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I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
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They talk all night and they talk all day
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Not for a minute do I believe anything they say
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I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
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You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean
[Verse 3]
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I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando
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Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando
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If I do it upright and put the head on straight
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I'll be saved by the creature that I create
[Verse 4]
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I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice
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I don't gamble with cards and I don't shoot no dice
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If you look at my face with your sightless eye
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Can you cross your heart and hope to die?
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I'll bring someone to life, someone for real
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Someone who feels the way that I feel
[Verse 5]
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I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind
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I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind
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I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me"
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I'm saying: “To hell to all things that I used to be
[Verse 6]
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Well, I get into trouble, then I hit the wall
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No place to turn, no place at all
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I'll pick a number between a-one and two
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And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?"
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I will bring someone to life in more ways than one
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Don't matter how long it takes, it'll be done when it's done
[Verse 7]
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I'm gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell
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Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle
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I'll play every number that I can play
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I'll see you maybe on Judgment Day
[Verse 8]
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After midnight, if you still wanna meet
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I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street
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Two doors down, not that far a walk
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I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock
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I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales
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I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant details
[Verse 9]
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You can bring it to St. Peter, you can bring it to Jerome
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You can bring it all the way over, bring it all the way home
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Bring it to the corner where the children play
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You can bring it to me on a silver tray
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I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense
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Do it with decency and common sense
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[Verse 10]
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Can you tell me what it means, to be or not to be?
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You won't get away with fooling me
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Can you help me walk that moonlight mile?
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Can you give me the blessings of your smile?
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I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers
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Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours
[Verse 11]
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I can see the history of the whole human race
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It's all right there, it's carved into your face
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Should I break it all down? Should I fall on my knees?
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Is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me, please?
[Verse 12]
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Stand over there by the cypress tree
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Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery
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Long before the first Crusade
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Way back before England or America were made
[Verse 13]
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Step right into the burning hell
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Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell
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Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his axe
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See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs
[Verse 14]
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Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it
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You've got what they call the immortal spirit
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You can feel it all night, you can feel it in the morn'
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It creeps in your body the day you were born
[Verse 15]
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One strike of lightning is all that I need
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And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed
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Shimmy your ribs, I'll stick in the knife
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Gonna jumpstart my creation to life
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I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years
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Do it with laughter and do it with tears (repeat and fade