Madeleine Peyroux - You Can't Do Me lyrics

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You can't do me, you can't do me, you can't do me the way you did before ?<br>

You can't do me, you can't do me, you can't do me the way you did before ?<br>

'Cause when you do, and when you do, 'cause when you do, you know I get so blue!<br>

When you do, and when you do, 'cause when you do, you know I get so blue and I go<br>

Down like a deep sea diver, out like a Coltrane tenor-man,<br>

Lost like a Chinese war baby ? gone, gone, gone!<br>

Blewed like a Mississippi sharecropper, screwed like a high-school cheerleader,<br>

Tattooed like a popeyed sailorman ? gone, gone, gone!<br>

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I should have been, I should have been, I should have been a pair of ragged claws.<br>

I should have been, I should have been, I should have been a pair of ragged claws.<br>

And for a while, for just a while, for a good long while you'd see me smile, smile, smile<br>

I'd crawl the seas on my bony knees, no apologies for my brave new style. I wouldn't go<br>

Bust like an internet millionaire, boom like a Lebanese belly-dancer,<br>

Bang like a new year's firecracker ? gone, gone, gone! I wouldn't get<br>

Bent like a rattan rockin' chair, blanked like a last place also ran,<br>

Burned like an Arkansas griddlecake ? gone, gone, gone!<br>

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I should have been, I should have been, I should have been a pair of ragged claws.<br>

And if I was, if I was, if I was then I'd complain no more.<br>

And for a while, for just a while, for a good long while you'd see me smile, smile, smile.<br>

I'd crawl the seas, on my bony knees, no apologies for my brave new style.<br>

I wouldn't get ?<br>

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Wrecked like a rebel on a racetrack, jacked like a '51 Cadillac,<br>

Macked like a bunny in a mansion ? gone, gone, gone!<br>

Spitooned like an Alabama 'backy wad, harpooned in a Melville sailor yard,<br>

Cartooned like a Charlie Brown Christmas card ? gone, gone, gone!<br>

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Schooled like a milk money bully whip, sued like a teenage downloader,<br>

Unglued like a bull in a china shop ? gone, gone, gone!<br>

Cranked like a speed freak high-roller, yanked like a little league ball swatter,<br>

Spanked like a fly on a bar counter ? gone, gone, gone!<br>

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Duked like a pistol whipped card swapper, rebuked like a Bible Belt border crosser<br>

Juked like a payola chart topper ? gone, gone, gone!<br>

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