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The Back Room
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Van Morrison
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In the back room (in the back room)
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In the back room (in the back room)
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I waited for you (waited for you)
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Ya waited for me (waited for me)
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Rain came down, pitter-pat
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Say, what you think, its raining outside
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You said, so what
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You turned the record player on, had a smoke
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Stood up, walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist
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Couldnt resist
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A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
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Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
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Walked into the room and said, whats goin on?
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I just got back from down the road
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Gotta couple a bottles of wine, somethin to turn you on
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What-a you think of that? (think of that, girl)
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(think of that girl)
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I said, sit down cat, pull up a seat, youre soakin wet
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Take off your coat and hat, wipe your feet on the mat
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In the back room (in the back room)
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In the back room (in the back room)
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I waited for you (waited for you)
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Ya waited for me (waited for me)
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I said, what time is it charlie, where did we go all day?
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Seem to get nowhere and do nothin but sit lookin at each other
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He said, I know, I been doin the same thing for weeks
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I look at the clock and all of a sudden Im hypnotized
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It speaks to me, it goes tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, ah-huh the kid he said, I dont know what you guys do but I been workin
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So hard, lately that I can just only fall asleep in bed
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So he played some more sounds and grooved a while
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Somebody brought out some cherry wine, cherry wine
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And we talked about what was goin on in the music world
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And other things
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Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha
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The rain outside came down like it came never before
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Down, came down, it came, rain rain rain
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And I said, baby what time is it, what time is it, tell me what time is it?
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Ah, four-thirty
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So I peeked round the corner, the blind
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An there ya go, theres another girl thats comin home from school
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Lookin so cool, just learned her as to zs
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And said,
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Hey man dont look funny, all the little girls comin home from school
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And theyre sittin, talkin and drinkin and all them other funny things
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A-ha-ha-ha
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And charlie said to me, ya know what? I said, what?
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He said, man you gotta go out there and do somethin for yourself
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Feel like you wanna make it or else you gonna be sittin round here like,
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Nothin
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I said, youre right, I said youre so right
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He said, I know ha
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I said, do ya?
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Said, you know youre cuttin records, cuttin records right
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You come through that
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An just through all the time youre gonna be out on the road
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Im out on the backseat man, on the, on the highway
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And the colors are gonna run
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All of a sudden dont ya feel safe the next gig, you gotta make it
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I said, yeah I feel safe
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I said, yeah you know I cant stay here all the time as much as Id like to
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But, I just learned about all day and all night
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And dig sounds, and go down to the river
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And once the artists go through the motions
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Gotta do my thing, aah-ah (in the back room) ah-ah
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Gotta do my thing (in the back room)
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In the back room (in the back room)
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Fades-
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In the back room (in the back room)
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