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Jackson Browne - The Pretender |
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I'm going to rent myself a house |
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In the shade of the freeway |
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I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning |
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And go to work each day |
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And when the evening rolls around |
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I'll go on home and lay my body down |
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And when the morning light comes streaming in |
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I'll get up and do it again |
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Amen |
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Say it again |
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Amen |
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I want to know what became of the changes |
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We waited for love to bring |
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Were they only the fitful dreams |
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Of some greater awakening |
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I've been aware of the time going by |
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They say in the end it's the wink of an eye |
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And when the morning light comes streaming in |
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You'll get up and do it again |
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Amen |
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Caught between the longing for love |
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And the struggle for the legal tender |
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Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring |
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And the junk man pounds his fender |
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Where the veterans dream of the fight |
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Fast asleep at the traffic light |
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And the children solemnly wait |
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For the ice cream vendor |
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Out into the cool of the evening |
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Strolls the Pretender |
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He knows that all his hopes and dreams |
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Begin and end there |
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Ah the laughter of the lovers |
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As they run through the night |
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Leaving nothing for the others |
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But to choose off and fight |
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And tear at the world with all their might |
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While the ships bearing their dreams |
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Sail out of sight |
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I'm going to find myself a girl |
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Who can show me what laughter means |
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And we'll fill in the missing colors |
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In each other's paint-by-number dreams |
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And then we'll put out dark glasses on |
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And we'll make love until our strength is gone |
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And when the morning light comes streaming in |
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We'll get up and do it again |
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Get it up again |
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I'm going to be a happy idiot |
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And struggle for the legal tender |
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Where the ads take aim and lay their claim |
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To the heart and the soul of the spender |
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And believe in whatever may lie |
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In those things that money can buy |
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Thought true love could have been a contender |
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Are you there? |
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Say a prayer for the Pretender |
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Who started out so young and strong |
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Only to surrender |
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