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One of the things
I'd like sometimes

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to do from time to
time is to approach

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to put it rather in a highbrow
way the condition of song.

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And here's one that I like
to think makes that approach.

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It's called bus stop.

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And comes out of a
period in my life

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when I lived in San
Francisco and felt depressed.

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Partly because,
unexpectedly, it rained a lot

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during a certain period.

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And I seem to always to
be out walking my dog

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while it was raining.

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And people were coming home from
work, and getting off the bus,

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and letting up their umbrellas.

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And I didn't really know
anybody in my neighborhood

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in San Francisco.

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So I'd look up into the
wind lighted windows

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and think, what are they doing?

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That feeling of being
an alien or a stranger

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in a city, all of that feeds
into this point a little bit.

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Buses stop in Kansas in
20th in Potrero Hill.

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Bus stop.

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Lights are burning
and quiet rooms, where

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lives go on resembling ours.

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The quiet lives that follow us.

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These lives we lead, but do
not own stand in the rain

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so quietly when we are gone.

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So quietly.

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And the last bus comes
letting dark umbrellas

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out black flowers,
black flowers.

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And lives go on, and lives go
on like sudden lights at street

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corners, or like the
lights in quiet rooms

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left on for hours
burning, burning.

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