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Who didn't wanna be the Boy with the Blue Guitar,
and the shiny blue suit, and the greatest rock and roll band in town?

Everywhere he went, boys in shiny blue suits lined up
to ask him for his autograph; he'd say,

"hey! Who do you think you're foolin' in that cute blue suit?
I've got ten million fans, and you all look the same."

Who are we? What is this strange confluence?
Thrown into this world in the shadow of the doomsday clock;
five minutes to midnight, and counting.

Who didn't wanna be the Girl with the Voice of an Angel?
She's my best friend in the whole wide world.

Singin' in the sunrise, wakin' up the neighborhood;
the agnostics on the block asked her,

"do you come from heaven above?"
She said, "how would I know? I can hardly see the sky from down here."

...three minutes to midnight, and counting.

I heard a voice outside my window tonight;
I hear strange sounds in the dark sometimes.

Nobody wanted to be the Boy with the Blue Guitar,
Christmas morning, waking up to find three smiling old men running off

with his old Blue Guitar; they sold it for whiskey,
he cried an ocean of rage,

and took a vow,
never to play again.

And nobody wanted to be the Bassist or the Drummer
of the greatest rock and roll band in town

the day the judge gave 'em life without parole
for the brutal murders of the smiling old men who stole the old Blue Guitar.

...two minutes to midnight, and counting.

Let's get this whole town together,
march on down to the prison gates tonight;
we will stand outside these prison gates
tonight, and every day and night, for the rest of our lives,
we won't eat, we won't sleep,
we will stand outside these prison gates
until everyone is free,
'cause everyone deserves to be free.

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from Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue, released August 20, 2022

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