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Looks Like Chaplin Lyrics

I feel awash
Close down the street
Yeah Chaplin walks
Be 9:15
And I hear them, hear them call his name
And I see him, see him turn away

They take him in
And clean him up

They take him in
And strip him down
They dry his skin
And feed him wine
And I hear them, hear them call his name
And I see him, see him turn away

Ask's to use the phone

Yeah he lives alone, he lives alone
There's no one, no one home to phone
He sits alone at home
He call his home his own
His wife is still unknown
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its definitely (kelly jones said) about a little old man who lived near him who no-one really knew anything about but this guy always walked past jones' window in the same clothes at the same time each day, and then sat at home in his rocking chair in his front room

@Handy The 9.15 part is the position his feet are..like Chaplins were as hands on a clock at 9.15

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oh yeah i forgot to say that the way this bloke walked reminded jones of how charlie chaplin walked. the 9.15 bit is the time he walked past, and the name-calling bit is about kids who used to take the p*ss out of him, and the rest of the community who were concerned about him being alone at such an old age

I wonder if 'feet nine fifteen' refers to the way he walked, i.e. with his feet pointed at '9:15' on the clock, which is how Charlie Chaplin's signature walk looked....

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Yeah, it does sound like this man's memory was going a bit, and he was all alone etc. At first I thought he'd killed his wife and the police were taking him in, but he'd done it when he was in a psychotic state and didn't remember that he'd done it.

 
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