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Kinks
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Miscellaneous
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The Road
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Sitting alone on my hotel
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Looking in the mirror wondering, "well,
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After all this time you never thought you'd still be out on the road?"
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Like a gypsy I was born to roam
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Like a wanderer with no fixed abode
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I think about the friends I've left behind on the road
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Well, the road's been rocky along the way
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It's been a long, hard haul on the motorway
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But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day
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(On the road)
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The bed and breakfasts and the greasy spoons
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(The road)
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The loser bars and the noisy rooms
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(The road)
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The casualties who did too many lines
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(The road)
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Wasted talent on women and wine
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I think of all the friends I've left behind
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Whenever it's time to get back out on the road
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Started playing blues in a coffee bar
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I took a trip down Charing Cross Road
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With my imitation Gretsch guitar
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And my head full of songs and my eyes full of stars
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I saw a band called the Rolling Stones
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I thought, "that's it, I'll get a band,
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I'm leaving home, I'm out on the road."
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The motorways all over this land
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(The road)
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Far away places like Wigan and Birmingham
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(The road)
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Didn't have no name, didn't have any fans
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(The road)
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Didn't have no money so we slept in the van
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All those early gigs we ever played
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Sometimes we were lucky if we even got paid
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On the road
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Pete played on the bass guitar
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Liked to get around, mixing with all the stars
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But Mrs. Avory's child was all fingers and thumbs
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But solid as a rock, setting time on the drums
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While Dave the Rave hit the rock '' roll riffs
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Yours truly strummed away with a slightly limp wrist
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On the road
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Everyday is when I can't get used to it
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Everyday is when I can't get away
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Another day, another freeway to face
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That's the road
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Well, life is a road, it's a motorway
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And the road gets rocky along the way
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But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day
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(On the road)
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Jimi Hendrix, The Who, the Led Zeppelin and Free
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They took the road so it's alright by me
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Some are survivors, some are debris
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If you play in a band that's the road that you take
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Living in it, eating in it, sleeping in it
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You wake up in the morning, what do you see?
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The road
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Life is a road, it's a motorway
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Lost a lot of good friends along the way
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All the families and homes that I've left behind
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To the wives and the lovers and friends who had their time
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I say, "you take your road and I'll take mine."
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(You take your road and I'll take mine)
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You take your road and I'll take mine
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(You take your road and I'll take mine)
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Life is a road, it's a motorway
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And the road gets rocky along the way
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But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day
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(On the road)
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Observed all the various phases from
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Flower power, heavy metal and acid rock
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And still all the critics keep saying
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"Are they still around? When they gonna stop?"
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It's just the dedicated followers of fashion who like putting down
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All the well respected men who came dancing and are still on the road
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Sometime I get suicidal
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Now everyone is a rival
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Different cars, different bars and hotels
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Corporations, big business and egos
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When it all gets too bad I think back
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When we were all each other had
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When we started out on the road
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And there's gas in my tank and I've still got a way to go
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Another hotel, it's time to check out soon
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As I look around the room
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I think of all the friends I've left behind
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On the road
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