Standard (EADGBE)
All you folks back home I'll never tell you this
you're not supposed to know where your daughter is
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there are ways of life you never understood
it's right here downtown Hollywood it's afternoon on Sunset Boulevard
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I've got a stolen moment trying hard to write a kind a kind of Christmas
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card but I.... am burning out again toni....ght there is fever in my
veins mama dear all the love you gave I guess there's really nothing
nothing much to save
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I see this place it is dirty as I feel myself there are still
some riches at the Roosevelt that evening prayer those memories
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in my little bedroom, mama, on my knees that's where I'm at down in Los
Angeles and I... am burning out again and I.... must rise above the shame
toni....ght there is fever in my veins yeh yeehhee
or just think of the girl I used to be you were my age once
mama twenty-three I can still hear some of the songs you used to
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play from that summer of love in '68 it seems it turned into a a winter
of hate
and I.... am burning out again it's ti...me I'd rise above the pain
toni....ght there is fever in my veins toni....ght there is fever in
my veins yehee summer of love.. winter of hate
ooohoo...
SPANISH STEPS
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Must have been walking don't know this place
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somebody's stopped talking is it written in my face
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though I'd never leave you though I'd never dare
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but I watched you going under there's a thought I could not bear
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five thousand miles I'm away from you
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drifting by the Spanish steps today
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guess you've got my number guess you got my line
(aah aah aaaaah)
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guess you got my number should I be on your mind
(aah aah aaaaah)
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late at night your footsteps barefoot on the floor
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tender eyes from sleeping in the darkened corridor
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I come up the stairway my naked enemy
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comes stumbling towards me wish I could set you free
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five thousand miles I'm away from you
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drifting by the Spanish steps today
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guess you've got my number guess you got my line
(aah aah aaaaah)
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five thousand miles I'm away from you
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sleeping by the Spanish steps today
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guess you've got my number should I be on your mind
(ooh ooh ooooh)
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you're not that hard to find
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five thousand miles I'm away from you
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drifting by the Spanish steps today
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guess you've got my number guess you got my line
(ooh ooh oooooh)
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sleeping by the Spanish steps today
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guess you've got my number wish you got my line yeeah
(ooh ooh oooooh)
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you're not that hard to find ...
(five thousand miles I'm away from you) ...
HALF IN LOVE HALF IN HATE
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Half in love and half in hate someone told me it is late
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late on earth he said maybe late in you and late in me
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darker than it has to be
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tell me just another lie now we're woven under ice
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tell me that there is no other I am a child be my mother
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if you lie babe if you bother
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since you raised that wall around you since I lost you
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I have found you strange and I could swear for sure haven't seen
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that girl before half in love and half at war
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hey you're looking strange everything you do girl it seems
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arranged dark words drift away I have nothing more to say
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mmm aaahaahaa aahaa
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soon the moon will rise and in the stony night I have to see your
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face see the lines that make you old stony silence touched by
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gold
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everything's too late too late for love and suddenly
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too late for hate
(there's only one thing left to do I have to face this
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too late for hate
other you) (only one thing left to do
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I have to face this other you this other you)
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ohaah ohaahh.. oohoooh oohooooh
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there's only one thing left to do I have to face this other
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you
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BRODSKY TUNE
as you pour yourself a scotch crush a roach or check your watch
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as your hands adjust your tie
in the towns with funny names hit by bullets caught in flames
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by and large not knowing why
and in small places you don't know of yet big for having no chance
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to scream or say good-bye
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la la la aaah awooh la la awooooh wooooh wooh wooh
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la la la aaah awooh la la awooooh wooooh wooh wooh let me know
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let me know
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people die as you elect new apostoles of neglect self restraint
whereby people die
too far off to practice love for thy neighbour brother Slav where your
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cherubs dread to fly
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la la la aaah awooh la la awooooh wooooh wooh wooh
d. | d. | o o o o
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la la la aaah awooh la la awooooh wooooh wooh wooh let me know
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while the status disagree Cain's version history for its fuel
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tends to buy goes to die
as you watch the athletes score or check your latest statement or sing
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your child a lullaby oooohooo
time whose sharp bloodthirsty quill parts the killed from those who kill
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will pronounce the latter tribe
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hey yeeah will pronounce the latter tribe heey lalalalala as
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your type
(la la la aaah awooh la la awooooh wooooh wooh wooh) (la la la
d. | d. | o o o o
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vavavava
aaah awooh la la awooooh wooooh wooh wooh let me... know)
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WILD SEED
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Baby are you holding the key was it you that put a lock on my door
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who sent you are you deep as the sea well it takes a deep womb to
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shelter me
I can hold you girl and watch yor heart settle down
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feels like home but I'm lost somehow
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God made you beautyful I made you cry.....
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so listen babe the sun's going down you know what I mean there
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ain't much time ooohoo oooh
we're the wild seed girl and this land's being farmed you know a
farmer takes a great pride in what he leaves behind
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God made you beautyful I made you cry.....
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Baby are you holding the key was it you that put a lock on my door
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who sent you girl are you deep like the sea well it takes a deep womb
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to shelter me I can hold you girl and watch yor heart settle down
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feels like home but I'm lost somehow hey
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God made you beautyful I made you cry.....
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......hey
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LOS ANGELES
You waited for me when I was strong you never ca.lled you waited long
now I come back to sleep with you you love me still I love you too
you kept the house I could not keep you kissed good night and went to
sleep now I come back to sleep with you you love me still I love you
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too come with me to that room by the sea with the view and the moon of
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Los Angeles
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you're beautiful back the..n God you're beautiful now come with me
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come with me to that room by the sea with the view and the moon
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of Los Angeles
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you're beautiful back the..n God you're beautiful now come with me
yeah I was strong I had no choice the kids grew up and left the house
but I come back to sleep with you you love me still I love you too
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I know u did
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come with me to that room by the sea with the view and the moon
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of Los Angeles
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you're beautiful back the..n God you're beautiful now
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EAST TIMOR
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Sandalwood trees are evergreen cut them down plant coffee beans
build no schools construct no roads mark them as fools
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let ignorance rule leave them stranded on their island
treat them to the tune of silence
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red is the cross that covers our shame every kingdom eve..ry land
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has its heart in the common man si..lently the tide
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shifts the sand
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bury my heart on East-Timor in coral sands on golden shores
buried are those who lived their lives no place to hide for
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father and child leave them stranded on their island
treat them to the tune of silence
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we shake the hands that kill and forgive..... every kingdom eve..ry land
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has its heart in the common man si..lently the tide
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shifts the sand
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bury my heart on East-Timor on barren graves where flowers won't grow
blooms our Red cross lovingly this nightingale deed
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now we can be free stranded on their island
this army of the silent
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we toast our own goodwill and forge.....t every kingdom eve..ry land
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has its heart in the common man si..lently the tide
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shifts the sand
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LAY ME DOWN TONIGHT
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Lay me down tonight I'm falling deep I'm tired now I'll sleep
So close my eyes and take me in I'll leap into the night like wind
I'll leave my body leave my sword so lay me do..wn Father Lo..rd
Lay me down tonight my heart is weak much you give and much you seek
I'll fall into a sea of sleep this sea of dreams so red and dee..p
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I leave my spirit leave my words so lay me down Mother Earth
Lay me down tonight I'm givin in let the works of life begin
your works of chaos works of grace creation Lord in your own pace
word to flesh and flesh to word Father Lord Mother Earth
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TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE
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Sleep my love sleep or look up at a sky returning
from its deep
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see the moon go down watch the sun come 'round tell me
what you see
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sleep my love sleep look into a world you can no
longer reach
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time's a one way track there is no direction back hmm
but when you're dreaming
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tell me what you see.....
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tell me what you see.....
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ooiih oooohooh tell me what you
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see ooh ooh ooh ooh oooh
(tell me what you see)
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sleep my love sleep like you slept with me
when the world was a dream that we believed
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it was near it was far... it answered to the stars noone's ever been
that close to me
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what did you see....
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tell me what you see.....
(tell me what you see)
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tell me what you see.....
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oooooiih oooohooh aaaaah aaaaaaah!
(tell me what you see)
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ooihoooh......
(tell me what you see)
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tell me what you see..... do you see me?
(tell me what you see)
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tell me what you see...................
(tell me what you see)
(sleep my love sleep)
tell me what you see now iiiih no longer reach
(tell me
(shalow la..)
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what you see)
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tell me what you see...................
(tell me what you see)
(sleep my love sleep)
no longer reach
(hey!! hehey!!)
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la laa.. one way track heeey! aaaah....
(tell me what you see)
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oooh..
STAY
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Stay I say it as a friend he can handle the daylight
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but the night has its way
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touch him like noone did before no fingerprints on the dew so stay
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whatever you do.......... watch him
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laughing oooh he can't help it he sees through the eyes of a child
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when he sees you
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and baby the town you come from you said you'd like to leave
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then say...
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where you gonna be............
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where you gonna be............
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do you see me in your sleep the dreams you're dreaming
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please be gentle oh be gentle there can be no other
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down so deep but do you see me do you know what to keep
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do you
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whatever you do................
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so stay I say it as a friend he can handle the daylight
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but the night has its way
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baby like noone did before no fingerprints on the dew so stay
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whatever you do.............
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whatever you do................
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stay
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baby...
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LORD
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Lord if that is Your name I'm afraid I'm beyond honour and shame
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there's nothing special that I... would like to say most of the time
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I've been ok so I know I may need You some day
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it is long since You heard from me Lord it is long
since I heard from Thee there's nothing special that I... would like to
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say most of the time I'm quite ok though I know I may
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need You some day why You put me Lord on this road
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of lust from ashes to ashes from dust to dust there's
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nothing special that I... would like to say
most of the time though
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I'm quite ok though I know I may need You some day Lord you know I'm
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gonna need you someday
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ooh ooooh ooh oooh ooooh oooooooh oooh oooh ooooh oooh ooh
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aaah... I may need you someday Lord I'm
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gonna need you someday oohooh oohooh oh ohh ohhhhh mmmh boh
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READY TO GO HOME
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On the street below these walls where I used to walk
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now I can barely crawl all this darkness rising tall
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Lord shine a light for me I'm waiting to be called
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I'm ready to go home I'm ready to receive forgiveness for my
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sins I'm ready to begin.....
take this river to the sea where the delta flows
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the tide is washing over me guide this soul to heaven's door
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show me where tomorrow lies I'm waiting to be born
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I'm ready to lay down I'm ready now to sleep a promise I must
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keep I'm ready to go home......
(free time)
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so tired I lay down with these memories I breathe shallow deep inside
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of me if time has run its course with me
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tempo)
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I'm ready to go home ooh I'm ready to receive forgiveness for
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my sins I'm ready to begin.....
when the evening shadows fall when the time must come
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I let defences fall... to surrender's to survive
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I will give up everything to those I leave behind
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I'm ready to go home I'm ready to receive forgiveness for my
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sins I'm ready to begin.....
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I'm ready to lay down I'm ready now to sleep a promise I must
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keep I'm ready to go home..... yeah