Storm Front

'49 harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray
South pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio

'50 joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television
North korea, south korea, marilyn monroe

'51 rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom
Brando, "the king and i" and "the catcher in the rye"

'52 eisenhower, vaccine, england's got a new queen
Marciano, liberace, santayana goodbye

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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

'53 joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev
Rockefeller, campanella, communist bloc

'54 roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacron
Dien bien phu falls, "rock around the clock"

'55 einstein, james dean, brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland

'56 bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev
Princess grace, "peyton place", trouble in the suez

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'57 little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac
Sputnik, chou en-lai, "bridge on the river kwai"

'58 lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

'59 buddy holly, "ben hur", space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go

'60 u-2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy
Chubby checker, "psycho", belgians in the congo

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'61 hemingway, eichmann, "stranger in a strange land"
Dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion

'62 "lawrence of arabia", british beatlemania
Ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson

'63 pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex
Jfk, blown away, what else do i have to say

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'64 - '89 birth control, ho chi minh, richard nixon back again
Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, punk rock
Begin, reagan, palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in iran, russians in afghanistan

"wheel of fortune", sally ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, aids, crack, bernie goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, china's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, i can't take it anymore

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We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

Well i see you in the morning
Putting on your pretty clothes
And i watch you do your make-up
Like they do in all those fashion shows
Then you turn to me so that i can see
If you put yourself together right
Then you go away and you're gone all day
But i know you're coming home tonight
And when you're home, darling all you've got to be is you
But when in rome, do as the romans do

Well it's alright if you're tired when your day is done
You can see when you look at me, you're not the only one
It's a cold, cruel world for a working girl
But you can't let them see you cry
It's a fact of life, now man and wife
Work full time to just get by
And when we're home all it's gonna be is me and you
But when in rome, do as the romans do

I've done some strange things i never thought i'd do before
But if the strain brings happiness, more or less...
More or less...

Then i don't mind masquerading with all those other fools
I don't mind the games i'm playing,
Because i've learned the rules
And when times are tough, i've got just enough
If you're standing right by my side
Darling more and more i get hungry for
All the ways you keep me satisfied
On our own there ain't nothing that we can't get thru
But when in rome, do as the romans do

Then i don't mind masquerading with all those other fools
I don't mind the games i'm playing,
Because i've learned the rules
It doesn't matter when we're home, all alone
All we've got to be is me and you
On our own there ain't nothing that we can't get thru
But when in rome, do as the romans do

Swing that hammer and break that stone
Push those buttons and answer that phone
Coffee in the morning and martinis at night
Everybody's working up a big appetite
Do as the romans do...

There you go, slipping away into a state of grace
I know the look that comes across your face
It's so familiar to me
Here i am, trying to keep you in my line of sight
I'm never certain that you read me right
Sometimes you don't want to see me

Here we are, both of us know we're in love
But that isn't always enough
I never could rise above it all, down i fall

But darling there you go, slipping away into a state of grace
Granted, this world is not a perfect place
Still it's the world that i'm in
Here i am talking while you don't hear a word i say
Knowing you're watching me from far away
Somewhere that i've never been

Don't you see, you lived a different life than me
It doesn't mean you have to be afraid of how
We're not the same, don't leave me now

But darling there you go, slipping away

How can i get you to stay where you are
Keep you from going too far
Holding you here is so hard to do...i'm losing you

And darling there you go, slipping away into a state of grace
Drifting away into your sacred place
Someplace that i've never been
There you go, slipping away, slipping away into a state of grace
There you go, slipping away into a state of grace
There you go...drifting away...

In every heart there is a room
A sanctuary safe and strong
To heal the wounds from lovers past
Until a new one comes along

I spoke to you in cautious tones
You answered me with no pretense
And still i feel i said too much
My silence is my self defense

And every time i've held a rose
It seems i only felt the thorns
And so it goes, and so it goes
And so will you soon i suppose

But if my silence made you leave
Then that would be my worst mistake
So i will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break

And this is why my eyes are closed
It's just as well for all i've seen
And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows

So i would choose to be with you
That's if the choice were mine to make
But you can make decisions too
And you can have this heart to break

And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows

Some people think that she's one of those mink-coated ladies
They say she wakes up at one
And makes the paparazzi run till dawn
She wines and dines with argentines and kuwaitis
After she sips margaritas on the white house lawn

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That's not her style i can tell you
That ain't my woman
It's just not her style i can tell you
Because i'm her man

The papers say she was seen in l.a. with a stranger
She found a perfect body with a maserati right outside
And then she chartered a lear
When she heard her career was in danger
And gave the pilot somethin' extra for a perfect ride

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Not that she's never done something crazy or done something wild
It's just that she's better at doing whatever suits her style
And that's not her style

I've read where it's said that she sleeps in a bed made of satin
She's had her face done in every place you can try
They say she gets a piece of every lease in manhattan
And says she's thirty when she's really pushing forty-five

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