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from East Asheville Hardware
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- (by Bob Franke)
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Death took the husband of a neighbor of mine
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On a highway with a drunk at the wheel
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She told me keep your clean hands off the laundry he left
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And don't tell me you know how I feel
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She had a tape that he'd sent her from a Holiday Inn
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That she never played much in the day
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But when I heard him say I love you through the window at night
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I just stayed the hell away
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Chorus:
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There's a hole in the middle in the middle of the prettiest life
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So the lawyers and the prophets say
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Not your father nor your mother nor your lover's ever gonna make it go away
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Now there's too much darkness in an endless night
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To be afraid of the way we feel
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Let's be kind to each other
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Not forever but for real
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My father never put his parachute on
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In the pacific back in World War II
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He said he'd rather go down in familiar flame
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Than get lost in that endless blue
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Well some of that blue got into my eyes
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And we never stopped fighting that war
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Until I first understood about endlessness
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And I loved him like never before
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There's a hole in the middle in the middle of the prettiest life
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So the lawyers and the prophets say
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Not your father nor your mother nor your lover's ever gonna make it go away
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Now there's too much darkness in an endless night
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To be ashamed of the way we feel
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Let's be kind to each other
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Not forever but for real
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Lucky my daughter got her mother's nose
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And just a little of her father's eyes
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And we've got just enough love
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That when the longing takes me
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It takes me by surprise
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And I remember that longing from my highway days
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When I never could give it a name
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And it's lucky that I discovered in the nick of time
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That the woman and the child aren't to blame
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For the hole in the middle of a pretty good life
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I only face it 'cause it's here to stay
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Not my father nor my mother nor my daughter nor my lover
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Nor the highway made it go away
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But now there's too much darkness in an endless night
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to be afraid of the way I feel
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I'll be kind to my loved ones
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Not forever but for real
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Some say god is a lover, some say it's an endless void
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And some say both, and some say she's angry
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And some say just annoyed
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But if god felt a hammer in the palm of his hand
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Then god knows the way we feel
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And then love lasts forever
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Forever and for real
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í‚© Bob Franke, all rights reserved
DAVID WILCOX - Layin Pipe
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