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The Skulls met the Pythons
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Down at the First Street station
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Alliances have been made in alleyways
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All across the nation
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These boys live off the milk of a silver jet
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And the love of sweet young women
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Now the Pythons are down from old Englishtown
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And they're lookin' to do some livin'
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Well the leader of the Pythons
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Is a kid they just call Zero
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Now Terry's pop says these kids are some kind of monsters
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But Terry says "No, pop, they're just plain heroes"
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Zero and Terry they found a love that burns like wild fire
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Now Terry's daddy understood that this Zero was no good
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A child, a thief and a liar
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Well from out of the darkness that breaks the dawn
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Zero rode like twilight
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He said "Tonight's the night, Blind Terry, come on"
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Terry come on, tonight is the night
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Pack your bags, baby
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And together they ran like reindeers through the street
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Like tomorrow the earth was gonna catch up on fire
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Now Terry's dad hired some troopers to kill Zero and bring Terry back home
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They crawled up in the night
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Like firelight
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Oooh...
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Now snow-white troopers from the council of crime
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Rode silver foxes through Terry's field
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Oh they met the Pythons down on Route 9
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But they refused to yield
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The Pythons fought with buzz guns
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And the troopers with swords like light
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And Zero and Terry they ran away
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As the gang fought all through the night
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Well now some folks say Zero and Terry got away
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Others said they were caught and brought back
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But still them young pilgrims to this day
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Go to that spot way down by the railroad track
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Where the Troopers met the Pythons
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Old timers cry on a hot August night
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If you look hard enough, if you try
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You'll catch Zero and Terry and all the Pythons
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Oh just hiking the streets of the sky
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Just walkin', hiking the streets of the sky
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