we’ll wander off through the dead of night’cause wastelands of shattered soulswarm by the firelightappear into the darkness aloneas the Indian summer of my remembrancesettles on my bonescracked and wearyI ask for direction homehomelet the words spill from my mouthlovelove is everything I wantI’m one of many more to comelovelove is everything i wantcrossroads outside […]
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would you be the wind to blow me homewould you be a dreamon the wings of a poemand if you were walking through a crowdyou know I’d be proud [CHORUS:]if you call my name out louddo you suppose that I would come runningdo you suppose I’d come at allI suppose I would and if we […]
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Once againI lie awake at night in storylandI’m slippin’ awayUnderstandJust to escape I run to hopeStill light years away I’m sinking in the sandI’m gonna take your handyou gotta understand I’m carried awayYour eternal flameDon’t blow it outYou gotta leave it onI’m carried awayI’m finding my faithGoes on and onI’m really getting a carried away […]
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Dear HaleyCan you save me from the borrowed cloud I’m onAll you gotta do is tryPray you’re just getting byHey wait I thought you’d made itHow’d your bottled crown fall offTell me how’d you get so tiredFaded down to the wireTry living a lie and kicking out the same old guiseWasting timeSo very ordinaryWait until […]
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You’re a girl that hates to see others happyUnless you’re happy tooSo, you’ve told the boy I loveA lot of things that ain’t true And it’s breaking my heart‘Cause it’s making us drift apartSo, humbly, I ask of youTo undo the wrong that you’ve done CHORUS:Please go to him, tell himBefore he finds someone new‘Cause […]
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One good loveErases all the bitter tears on an empty dance hallAll those lonely nights when she never calledIt just don’t seem so tragic after allWith one good love One good loveAnd daddy’s hands were strong and fairAnd a momma understands because she’s been thereAnd all mistakes were just because they cared so muchWith one […]
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Do you remember back in nineteen sixty-six?Country Jesus, hillbilly blues, that’s where I learned my licks.Oh, from coast to coast and line to linein every county there,I’m talkin’ ‘botu that outlaw Xis cuttin’ through the air. Anywhere, y’all,everywhere, y’all,I heard it, I heard it,I heard it on the X. We can all thank Doctor Bwho […]
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It’s not her fault that she’s so irresistibleBut all the damage she’s caused is unfixableEvery twenty seconds you repeat her nameBut when it comes to me you don’t careIf I’m alive or dead, so [Chorus:]ObjectionI don’t want to be the exceptionTo get a bit of your attentionLove is for free andI’m not your motherBut you […]
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I am not the type of dog That could keep you waiting For no good reason Run a carbon-black test on my jaw And you will find it’s all been said before I can swing my megaphone and long arm the rest It’s easier and better To just beat it from the chest Of desire […]
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O.K. Ready to take offdo it slowI’m living on the bottomI got to gofive little fingersgrabbing at the glassgone, those daysnow I’m runningup and down in my cage Too late to defend, I’m buried – insane don’t you know there’s more to life than to win are you that kind of stereotype?it’s no time, there’s […]
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