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Tom: Am
Intro: E
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Downstairs they're playing Kenton, the house set to swing
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I lay in my bed and listen to everything
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Cause Leo's in rare form tonight, his trombone sings so sweet
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This is the room where they all come to meet
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He said "I do what I can,  I live for the moment 
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and that's who I am,     yeah that's who I am"
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  And isn't it good  if we could freeze moments in time 
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We all would,  but I do what I can, I do what I can
 
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Downstairs he's playing Kenton,      the Magnavox sighs
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But oh how the music has changed in all of our lives
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He says "nobody listens  to modern jazz
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and I'll never have     what those guys have"
He says "I do what I can, I work for a living
and that's who I am, yeah that's who I am"
And it's good to be alive, but everything's different
Since Leo died, I do what I can
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  Is this the end of the modern world
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What could it mean for a young girl
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Who sees the pain on his face?
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He does what he can
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  The procession on the TV screen
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  What could it possibly mean
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For a man who's come this far 
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just to turn around
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Could there still be life in   Kenton's swing    }-played in 4/4 time
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With the Kennedys gone and everything            }
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Those sad rows of houses with their optimistic colours
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Democrat grandparents and draft dodging brothers
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Riots down the street and discontented mothers
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We do what we can
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Downstairs it's quiet - less alive, somehow
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Somehow he was everything that I am now
And he says "I do what I can, I work for a living
And that's who I am, and that's who I am"
But it's good to be alive, and these are the choices
We make to survive - you do what you can
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