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The next day the paper said
Forty injured nineteen dead
From an AK that was spitting lead
She took one in the head

They saved the baby just in time
The widower named her Clementine
Thoughts and prayers came her way
From members of the NRA

She turned eighteen and got to vote
The tv news played her quote
Years from then she ran and won
And she outlawed that fucking gun

She served one term and then another
And she damn well knew her mother
Smiled at her from beyond
A magazine at Cafe du Monde

chorus:
Cafe du Monde
Cafe du Monde
Everyone comes and goes
But one heart lingers on
At Cafe du Monde

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I Wonder How You Are

He lives by himself on the second floor
Up one flight of stairs, a number on the door
With someone above him and someone below
A handful of neighbors that he doesn’t know

Gets on the L at Howard, red line to the loop
Hours of his time that he never can recoup
Working in a cubical, computer and a chair
Winter streets are grey and showing in his hair

Drive out to the country
And wish upon a star
Thinking ‘bout you lately
And wonder how you are

Drive out to the country
In this old beat up car
Wonder where you are tonight
I wonder how you are
I wonder how you are
I wonder how you are

He empties out the dryer and folds up all his clothes
An empty pack of cigarettes and empty tv shows
There’s a soft knock at his door but he’s gone to bed
A woman down the hall that maybe he misled

And so our story changes, enough about the man
To sing about him any more is more than I can stand
Less than a year from now she becomes a wife
She never thinks about that man, that’s life, that’s just life

Drive out in the country
And wish upon a star
Thinking ‘bout you lately
And wonder how you are

Drive out to the country
In this old beat up car
Wonder where you are tonight
I wonder how you are
I wonder how you are
I wonder how you are