I want to be beautiful, so I got a magazine

But it made me so sleepy, and now I'm in a dream

A voice says, "Go down to the river between the bridge and the ravine

And don't come out of the water till your light shines clean"



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Check it out, check it out, check it out

Check it out, check it out, check it out

Check it out, check it out, check it out

Check it out



I put my head underwater, it's like my childhood room

But the water won't clean me, it smells like women's perfume

How can I wash my sins away with the water from this poisoned stream?

And how can I get my light to shine when I don't know if I can be redeemed?



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I saw the Rocky Mountains on a dirty TV screen

But when I tried to polish it, I found that it was clean

Sometimes I want to buy Bob's old VW bug, drive back to 1969

But then who'd be around to polish it when I finally get my light to shine?



Chorus