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CARLY SIMON lyrics : "Playing Possum"

(Carly Simon)
We lived up here in Cambridge
And browsed in the hippest newsstands

The we started our own newspaper
Gave the truth about Uncle Sam
We loved to be so radical

But like a ragged love affair
Some became disenchanted
And some of us just got scared


Now are you playing possum
Keeping a low profile

Are you playing possum for a while

then you moved to the country

Bought a farm and tilled the land
Then you took your books to India
And got hooked on a holy man

But the wells they do run dry
And the speeches turn to words
And the woods are full of tigers

And freedom's for the birds

Now you run a bookstore

And you've taken on a wife
You wear patches on your elbows
And you live an easy life

But are you finally satisfied
Is it what you were lookin' for
Or does it sneak up on you

that there might be something more

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