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I used to get up and down

Now I just go out

Dogs have taken over the town

  So I just stand in the rain

My job now has become obsolete

They don't need me to sweep the street

All that now is done with

  The sweeping of a hand

I ain't the thing that people see

As the thing that you need

To be in the place

A man should be

So I just pick up the odds and ends

Left by the others when

They don't shine

  Anymore

The people in the place to be

Feel fine to stare at me

Laying here beneath

The water line

I can breathe under the sea

Mountains step aside for me

Don't wanna be on TV

  I just want the metal inside

I'm the man picks up the metal

Left by the people who think they'd know better

I'm the one still in the middle

Between death and solving the riddle