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Mary Beth is that fancy woman Standing over there The expression on her face Is just like her underwear Carefully chosen, easy to see through 2 a.m. when the game is up Tempting to undo (?) But dawn breaks on her sad smile And I'll see you around All the little places around the town Gabriel was painter A good one in his youth Between poverty and a hustle He chose a substitute Tenure and a greenhouse And little trips to Mexico An affair with a deep-eyed girl Every couple years or so When he looks inside at what he hasn't done He comes tumbling down To all the little places around the town Letras de cancionesThe university poets Buzz around in their little japanese cars They hit the parties for the out-of-towners You don't see them much at the bars All their thin and stiff little books Not too much to say Yaking at eachother in the APR (?) While the years slip away The horseman passes by the classroom scene And a cold wind blows around All the little places around the town Julie and me we see eye to eye When we stand toe to toe And I surely will not soon forget That day in her studio The colors all got brighter Than the corona of the sun It's action painted while we moved it (?) And still life when we was done I'm always hoping I will run into her When I'm out catting around At all the little places around the town The faculty wives they get gray and tattered Like the books upon their shelves They're sitting around by their big bay windows Reading fiction about themselves Dreading the hour when they hear That well-heeled step once more And see those sad eyes through the glasses He bought at the professor eyeglass store Couldn't she have shopped around a little longer While she was out checking it out At all the little places around the town? Charley had a habit of going Too many rounds with the wall He's drinking to celebrate the spring He's drinking to mourn the fall He made it out to Colorado When he got tired of the flat I ain't too worried about that boy He don't wear no cowboy hat I sure miss him on these winter nights When the blue snow settles down On all the little places around the town When you were here I never went To any of these little joints We spent all of our time outside What else is the point What else but the railroad tracks Gleaming in the winter sun What else but the spring graveyard Showing the ghosts how it's done But you left like everyone does And I found myself going down To all the little places around the town Well the lights go red, the lights go green Traffic moves on through The lights go up, the lights go down You get a flash of who's who Who is true and who is one (?) And who ain't really sure Who has seen too many times What they've already seen before Who is free to come and go And who will forever be bound To all the little places All these little places All the little places around the town From Letras Mania