My Own Version of You

All through the summers, into January
 I've been visiting morgues and monasteries
 Looking for the necessary body parts
 Limbs and livers and brains and hearts
 I'll bring someone to life, it's what I wanna do
 I wanna create my own version of you
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 Well, it must be the winter of my discontent
 I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
 They talk all night and they talk all day
 Not for a minute do I believe anything they say
 I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
 You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean
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 I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando
 Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando
 If I do it upright and put the head on straight
 I'll be saved by the creature that I create
 I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice
 I don't gamble with cards and I don't shoot no dice
 Can you look at my face with your sightless eyes?
 Can you cross your heart and hope to die?
 I'll bring someone to life, someone for real
 Someone who feels the way that I feel
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 I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind
 I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind
 I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me"
 I'm saying, "To hell to all things that I used to be"
 Well, I get into trouble, then I hit the wall
 No place to turn, no place at all
 I'll pick a number between a-one and two
 And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?"
 I will bring someone to life in more ways than one
 Don't matter how long it takes
 It'll be done when it's done
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 I'm gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell
 Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle
 I'll play every number that I can play
 I'll see you, maybe, on Judgment Day
 After midnight, if you still wanna meet
 I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street
 Two doors down, not that far a walk
 I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock
 I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales
 I'm not gonna get involved in any insignificant details
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 You can bring it to St. Peter
 You can bring it to Jerome
 You can bring it all the way over
 Bring it all the way home
 Bring it to the corner where the children play
 You can bring it to me on a silver tray
 I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense
 Do it with decency and common sense
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 Can you tell me what it means, to be or not to be?
 You won't get away with fooling me
 Can you help me walk that moonlight mile?
 Can you give me the blessings of your smile?
 I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers
 Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours
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 I can see the history of the whole human race
 It's all right there, it's carved into your face
 Should I break it all down? Should I fall on my knees?
 Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
 Can you tell me, please?
 Stand over there by the cypress tree
 Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery
 Long before the first Crusade
 Way back before England or America were made
 Step right into the burning hell
 Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell
 Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his ax
 See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs
 Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it
 You've got what they call "the immortal spirit"
 You can feel it all night, you can feel it in the morn'
 It creeps in your body the day you were born
 One strike of lightning is all that I need
 And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed
 Shimmy your ribs, I'll stick in the knife
 Gonna jumpstart my creation to life
 I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years
 Do it with laughter, and do it with tears