Ghosts

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Teaser on the Wire, Moonshot, Eddie Frog,

Spigot Ray in Detroit City, come on home, come on home.

We've got plans to make, plans.

Speed King, Bucky Two, Elly Mae on LSD,

We haven't kept the kind of touch I meant to keep.

You all are hanging out like ghosts tonight

Apparitions in the middle of my middle-class white lawn

Like children up to mischief in the schoolyard sharing wine,

Your same old selves, together again.

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I didn't mean to leave you.

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Big Cod, Lillie Belle, Straight from Utah John,

The moon's up above us and there might as well be three,

Tonight's so bright. One more time?

Let's chase our shadows down by the spillway

And catch them like we used to,

And this time try them on.

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