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Napoleon Sheds His Skin             Tom Cochrane/Red Rider

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          The streets are covered in chalk, the shops all boarded up

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         The bodies are carried back down from the square

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          He begins to wonder if it always was this hot

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           Or is it just the clothes that he now wears....

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         Napoleon sheds his skin in the summer when the sun is high

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         He never knew when to quit, when to stop, or when to say die.

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         Picnic balls, near the town, are wanderin' underground

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          'cause she would not have left him anyway....

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         Wait by the sea, wait in the sun, as if the time stood still

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          And he'd get involved in whichever side could pay

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         Napoleon sheds his skin in the summer when the sun is high

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         He never knew when to quit, when to stop, or when to say die.

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                                       Napoleon!!!!!

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                                   Ohhhh, the time stands still behind the

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distant days....                        in time moves on outside, in the

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         sun......                many wonder just which side he's really

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          on                then he doesn't care, it's all gray in there,

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      he just wants to get back to her,     Napoleon sheds his skin in the

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summer when the sun is high,               he never knew when to quit, when

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to stop, or when to say die........        She waits for him by the wharf by

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the sea where they used to go         and she sings a song that they'd sing,

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then she waits for the echo...         Napoleon                   sheds his

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         skin                            Napoleon                  sheds his

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         skin                            Napoleon                sheds his

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        skin             [guitar lead outro with "distant" vocal]

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