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The Caves Of Altamira
Steely Dan
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The Caves Of Altamira
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I recall when I was small
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How I spent my days a lone
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The busy world was not for me
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So I went and found my own
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I would climb the garden wall
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With a candle in my hand
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I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand
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On the stone an ancient hand
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In a faded yellow-green
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Made alive a worldly wonder
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Often told but never seen
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Now and ever bound to labor
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On the sea and in the sky
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Every man and beast appeared
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A friend as real as I
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Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
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When there wasn�t even Hollywood
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They heard the call and they wrote it on the wall
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For you and me
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Can it be this sad design
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Could be the very same
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A wooly man without a face
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And a beast without a name
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Nothin' here but history
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Can you see what has been done
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Memory rush over me
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Now I step into the sun
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Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
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When there wasn�t even Hollywood
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They heard the call and they wrote it on the wall
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For you and me
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For you and me
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Peter Kruger
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