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Only The Song Survives
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John Hiatt
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I woke her up twice in the middle of the night
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To ask what her name is and where she might live
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To ask how many fingers she saw in this light
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To ask if she might know what gives
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She said we rolled that Camaro like a cowboy cigarette
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Out on the highway in a puddle of beer
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That's just about how close to death you're gonna get
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Till the only thing standing is fear
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CHORUS:
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Singing, oh darling, faces were changed
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The names of the innocent, the story at five
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Oh darling, faces get strange
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But only the song survives
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She said, now don't you remember they put a patch on your eye
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Like Dread Pirate Roberts, you looked so unplanned
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They cut off my wedding ring and you started to cry
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A one-eyed Niagara Falls man
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I said, but I never married - I said with surprise
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And is this the diamond you said that you lost
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It was under my eyelids when they flushed out my eyes
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Hell and I don't know what the thing cost
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CHORUS TWICE
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But I woke up sweating to breakfast in bed
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And there were my children, and there was my wife
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Post-traumatic stress, of just a bump on the head
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Or maybe the ride of my life
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CHORUS TWICE
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