Intro
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Let me tell you ’bout the night I decided to buy some rollerblades
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I’ll tell you ’bout the night I decided to buy some rollerblades
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My poet and my painter friends called me from a bar, they said take a taxi if you don’t have a car
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We’ll talk about Monica and Clinton and Starr and that was the best night that I spent in New York so far
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I was living in a hotel on 25th and 3rd Avenue
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F noodle shop and a pizza place was my view
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The poet had lived six years in the hotel the painter was from England from the town of Bristol
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Massive Attack was playing and he said he could get us all in, 'cause they’re from Bristol, too
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And that was the best night that I spent in New York so far
Bridge:
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I should say by way of explanation, that this
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Girl I met in Amsterdam turned me on to Massive Attack
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She was cool and so are they and life is good sometimes
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After the show we went to a party with the band
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I didn't say a word to anybody, that's how I am
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The poet left the party to meet up with a girl, me and the painter started walking up Third
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At four in the morning for a doner-kabob and somewhere in there I decided to buy some rollerblades the next day
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That was the best night that I spent
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That was the best night that I spent
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That was the best night that I spent in New York so far