Ambition
Let's hurt each other
On the Merry-Go-Round Love
Painted with kisses and lies.
Let's move to a town
We have never been
And run for Mayor.
We can sit with friends
We have never met
And make up stories about
The Good Old Days.
Let's open a drug store
And hang a sign
In the window that says:
"Just Say No."
Surely we could Dodge a cold Draft
When a Blue Norther comes to call.
And then maybe
We can just be ourselves.
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