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1. Getting crazy on the waltzers,
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But it's the life that I choose.
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Sing about the sixblade, sing about the switchback
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And a torture tattoo.
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And I been riding on a ghost train,
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Where the cars they scream and slam.
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And I don't know where I'll be tonight
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But I'd always tell you where I am.
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2. In a screaming ring of faces,
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I seen her standing in the light.
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She had a ticket for the races,
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Yeah just like me she was a victim of the night.
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I put a hand upon the lever ,
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Said let it rock and let it roll.
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I had the one arm bandit fever,
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There was an arrow through my heart and my soul.
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R: And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above.
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And I'm just high on the world.
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Come on and take a low ride with me girl,
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On the tunnel of love.
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Yeah love.
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3. It's just the danger,
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When you're riding at your own risk.
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She said you are the perfect stranger,
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She said baby let's keep it like this.
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It's just a cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say:
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Hey mister, give me two now cos any two can play.
R: And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above.
And I'm just high on the world.
Come on and take a low ride with me girl,
On the tunnel of love,
Yeah love.
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*: Well it's been money for muscle another whirligig.
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Money for muscle and another girl I dig.
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Another hustle just to make it big and
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Rockaway yeah rockaway
Oh rockaway rockaway.
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4. And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did.
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Oh like the spanish city to me when we were kids.
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Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did.
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Oh like the spanish city to me when we were kids.
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5. She took off a silver locket, she said remember me by this.
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She put her hand in my pocket, I got a keepsake and a kiss.
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And in the roar of dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away,
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I could have caught up with her easy enough,
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But something must have made me stay.
R: And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above.
And I'm just high on the world.
Come on and take a low ride with me girl,
On the tunnel of love,
Yeah love.
On the tunnel of love,
Yeah love.
Gm
*: And now I'm searching through these carousels
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And the carnival arcades.
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Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades.
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In any shooting gallery where promises are made,
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To rockaway rockaway rockaway rockaway
From cullercoats and whitley bay out to rockaway.
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6. And girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did.
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Like the spanish city to me when we were kids.
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And girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did.
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Like the spanish city to me when we were kids.