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Artist: Papermaps
Canonical path: /papermaps/edge-of-chinatown
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Edge Of Chinatown
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Edge Of Chinatown
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Sleep had turned me upside down
So I walked to the edge of Chinatown
I went to my haunt of seven years
Nobody really knows me there
I saw a wicker man who lost his way
Went to the mountain for forty days
Spoke to the fire but lost his nerve
What did he learn?
I sat among the denim pushers
Writers, mothers, dealers, teachers
Healers, dreamers and wayward spouses
And pretty things from red light houses
He was a family man who lost his faith
Wrote to the girl for seven days
Caught a train downtown but lost his nerve
What did he learn?
And what did he deserve?
Sleep had turned me upside down
So I walked to the edge of Chinatown
I walked through the mall and past a mirror
I didn’t recognize who I saw there
A wicker man who lost his way
Went to the mountain for forty days
Spoke to the fire but lost his nerve
What did he learn?
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Papermaps performs "Edge Of Chinatown", and this lyric page sits inside the Papermaps catalog on LyroVerse.
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