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(paradise by the sea)

Well there’s sparklin’ angels on your fire-escape tonight
They line them up for you trying to keep you safe
But with them fire alley burglars on a midnight vamp
You lost your heart on main street to a beautiful tramp
That’s all right, I don’t mind
`cause I got (you got) a love so fine
A love so fine, me and my baby
A love so fine, me and my baby
A love so fine

The rat’s traps are filled with soul crusaders
Everybody’s popping and hopping and jumping
At little melvin and the invaders
You’re out on the floor and you can’t get up
Your baby’s out there dancing and struttin’ that continental strut
She looks so good, she looks so fine (she blows your mind)
Oh we (you) got a love so fine
A love so fine
A love so fine
A love so fine

Everybody’s reeling when the band hits the ceiling
Don’t you know you just wanna go
The boys start (joint gets) rockin’, your knees start knockin’
Everybody party, go
Let’s go

The bar’s closed down (it’s 3 o’clock and the bar’s closed)
You walk to the shady side of town all alone (well you walk along with your)
Papa’s screaming at you, he wants some cash (baby to the dirty side of town)
Mama’s chewing you (me) off about hanging out with (alley) trash
That’s all right, oh you don’t mind
’cause you’ve got a love so fine, oh me and my baby
A love so fine
A love so fine
A love so fine

It’s cloudy out in pittsburgh
It’s rainin’ in saigon
Snow’s fallin’ all across the michigan line
Well she sits by the light of her christmas tree
With the radio softly on
Thinkin’ how a good man is so hard to find

Well once she had a fella
Once she was somebody’s girl
And she gave all she had that one last time
Now there’s a little girl asleep in the back room
She’s gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world
And how a good man is so hard to find

Well there’s pictures on the table by her bed
Him in his dress greens and her in her wedding white
She remembers how the world was the day he left
And now how that world is dead
And a good man is so hard to find

She got no time now for casanovas
Yeah those days are gone
She don’t want that anymore, she’s made up her mind
Just somebody to hold her
As the night gets on
When a good man is so hard to find

Well she shuts off the tv
And without a word
Into bed she climbs
Well she thinks how it was all so wasted
And how expendable their dreams all were
When a good man was so hard to find
Well it’s cloudy out in pittsburgh

See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side you’re on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?

See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it’s all right where it belongs

What if everything around you
Isn’t quite as it seems
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream?

And if you look at your reflection
Is that all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?

What if all the world’s inside of your head
Just creations of your own?
Your devils and your gods all the living and the dead
And you’re really all alone?

You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can’t find the woods
While you’re hiding in the trees

What if everything around you
Isn’t quite as it seems
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream?

And if you look at your reflection
Is that all you want to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?