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Empire Falls lyrics

I envy the quiet lives that for all I know don t exist
Outside of a lazy book that won a Pulitzer Prize
I picked up cause you said it opened up your eyes.

I m wired now and will be til I find a person who could eat at the Empire Grill
Who s seen a black mercedes at the textile mill
and spreads the word to all the folks expression hasn t killed.

I ll follow that car down to Boston, and ask what it wanted in Maine.
Coffee at least for my trouble, and I ll be a hero if I came back with something to say . . .

Too late, they wouldn t like me there
and though they might not mind my inquisitive stare,
every single one of them is too polite to care
why I m enchanted by a way of life in disrepair,
but I m not taking apple pie eating, Jack and Coke drinking, hopeful lie telling, anywhere,
America, through camera eyes, On a Hollywood body that could make you all cry.

Maybe I ll go to the movies (a comedy would be ideal.
Something that probably won t happen) cause this made up town is much too real.
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