By Button Poetry
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Neil Hilborn, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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it’s a good day in Minneapolis when it’s
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only below freezing I wake up look
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outside to make sure everything’s still
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covered in snow it is comforting I
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scrape the ice off my car then go back
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to bed if I can’t handle ice I
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definitely can’t handle my friends Mike
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passed out in new studio after the show
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last night Jessica’s been up since 5:00
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just painting Dylan hangs out in Uptown
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where I used to live not exactly but you
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get it Dylan hangs out at 26 in lyndale
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the only good corner in Minneapolis it’s
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actually it’s over there I pointed the
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wrong way anyway uh when I wake up
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hungover on his couch it’s a good day in
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Minneapolis the best day in Minneapolis
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ends with me biking down Lake Street
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until I hit the river or a car
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Minneapolis is a jar that I’m just now
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strong enough to open this city is an
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anchor in the middle of a field the
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city’s a quarter who glued to the
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sidewalk we’d be useful if we weren’t
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stuck here we’re all about pretending
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mediocre beer and worst seafood is fine
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dining whoo we’re all about loving what
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we’ve got to that end take your damn
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shoes off at the door help your
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neighbors dig out after the blizzard
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turn in early get up late switch shifts
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with me if you can I fell in love at the
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triple rock but it’s not there anymore I
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lived in the terrible part of a mansion
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but it’s not there anymore the stairwell
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the sunlight the police I broke my
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shoulder all not there anymore you can
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go home but it won’t feel like here you
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might live here but it’ll never feel
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like home don’t call it a comeback we’ve
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been here for a while it’s just that now
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the ice is melting ice house how are you
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doing tonight
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[Applause]
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