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Turned out she drank the same tea as me
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It don't take more than that to start a conversation sometimes
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She believed collage was the greatest of all the arts
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And was busy pasting pictures of horses
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Next to ads for laundry soap
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Next to Mohammed Ali
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She had a turquoise in her ear
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And said Rachmaninoff was always in her head
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Later that day I was trying to describe her to Jimmy the Wig
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I couldn't find any words
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And I realized I'd started to sketch her chin
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Somehow it didn't look right
Fm
I scratched it out and tried it again
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I filled an entire pad
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I threw it away, I never even came close
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For six days I sat at Dino's place
Fm
The rain wouldn't quit and no one came in
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Finally on the seventh day it cleared
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And in she walked
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I asked her to sit with me
And I bought her a cup of tea
Fm
And I asked her to model for me sometime
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That afternoon I was at a canvas
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She was wearing a yellow dress
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I swore if she let me, I'd get it right
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I've painted over ten thousand paintings
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Sad ones, funny ones, dark ones, and light ones
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But sitting there, it was like I couldn't even
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Write my own name
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I apologized and said, "It's been a few months
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If you have patience, I'll get the hang of it again"
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In the next few weeks, I painted her hundreds of times
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If I get the nose right, the chin's too long
Fm
If I get 'em both right, the face is too thin
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But I keep after it and one day
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I get it all right
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I painted a still life this morning
Fm
Of a throat lozenge
sitting on a copy of Tropic of Cancer
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The only thing that's funny
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Is I never thought
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I'd paint anything again
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I think I might go visit Estelle
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Those Utah mountains are good for the soul
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I'll bring my brushes
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And some Jack Daniels
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And we can make up for lost time
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She said, "Why baby, why baby, why baby why?
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Have you turned your back on love
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You had so many chances
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Why do you let 'em all go by?
D# Fm
Why baby, why baby, why baby why?
Have you turned your back on love
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You had so many chances
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Why do you let 'em all go by?"
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Sometimes it seems like there's so much that you need
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Sometimes the world is upside down
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Sometimes it seems like the only thing you need
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Is holdin' someone's hand as you walk through town