Pamphleteer

Tom: G

Intro:
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C - G - D
G - D - E - D - C

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I'm standing on this corner.
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Can't get their attention.
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Facing rush hour faces turned around.

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I clutch my stack of paper
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press one to a chest then 
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watch it swoop and stutter to the ground.

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I'm weary with right-angles
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abbreviated daylight
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and waiting for a winter to be done.

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Why do I still see you
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in every mirrored window
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in all that I could never overcome?

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How I don't know what I should do 
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with my hands when I talk to you.
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How you don't know where you should look 
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so you look at my hands.
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How movements rise and then dissolve 
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melted by our shallow breath.
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How causes dance away from me.
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I am your pamphleteer.

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I walk this room in time to 
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the beat of the Gestetner
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contemplate my next communique.

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The rhetoric and treason
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of saying that I'll miss you
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Of saying "Hey, well maybe you should stay."

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Sing "Oh what force on earth could be weaker than the 
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feeble strength of one"
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like me remembering the way it could have been.
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Help me with this barricade
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No surrender. No defeat.
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A spectre's haunting Albert Street.
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I am your pamphleteer.