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Ain't Got Nothin'

When I was just a boy in the Zone, I remember
I knew all there was to know.
A girl was just the means to an end, a consensual friend,
I'd just love 'em and let 'em go.

In the middle of all of the confusion,
In between all the words, the kicks and deals,
Came a notion, an ocean of devotion,
What is real? Can you feel?

You can be,
A Walton or Rockefeller,
With all the money you'll ever need.
So much dough,
You can buy Manhattan and the Island of Staten
And trade them back to the natives for beads.

You can have all the Chi in China,
You can have all the sun in San Tropez
You can own the coast of Carolina
Wrap it up! I still say...

There ain't nothin' like love,
'n' I got nothin' but you, girl.

I once was the most down-trodden, misbegotten, dirty rotten, little
hurensohn in the GDR.
Did I care? Not a hair. It was all relative, remarkably superlative
To the feeling of being a bore.

Then I dreamed you came to me laughing.
Then I dreamed you wore the misting rain.
You showered me with golden adoration,
No more pain. I'll explain.

Ain't got nothin' but you.
Ain't got nothin' but you, girl.
Ain't got nothin' but you.
No, no, not me, no, no, I, I,
I ain't got nobody,
Nobody but you.
Just you, yes you.