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I’m looking all around everywhere I go for the guy walking ‘round in my shoes
Cause I can’t seem to find myself anywhere and I’m not sure what to do
I get up every morning and I look into the mirror but there’s somebody else looking back
I used to know that face a long time ago but now there’s something that it lacks
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I just wanna be me
I just wanna be me
Now I know we’ve all got a ghost or two among the skeletons buried in the closet
But it seems there’s more than that missing in me and I’d like to know who’s got it
It seems there’s always somebody trying to tell me how to live my life
Don’t they see their really not talking to me but to that stranger lurking inside
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(Bridge)
I don’t know what I’m meant to do
Or who I’m supposed to be
The only thing I know for sure is I …
I’m looking all around everywhere I go for the guy walking ‘round in my shoes
Cause I can’t seem to find myself anywhere and I’m not sure what to do
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Dreamer, living in his own world
Where everything is so surreal
And that's the way he likes it
Dreamer, loves imaginary girls
He buys them all diamonds and pearls
And that's the way they like it
Everyday is sunday afternoon
Sunday afternoon, once a week is not enough
It's over too soon, when monday comes you
Hear the alarm but can't get up
You turn if off when the going gets tough
Dreamer, lives his own reality
To be who he wants to be
and that's the way he likes it
Dreamer, now he's finally found his queen
And her life's become a dream
And that's the way she likes it
Everyday is sunday afternoon
Sunday afternoon, the sun is shining in the sky
If they only knew, that Marilyn
Monroe was lying at your side
All you had to do was close your eyes
Dreamer, living in his own world
Where everything is so surreal
And that's the way he likes it
Dreamer, loves imaginary girls
He buys them all diamonds and pearls
And that's the way they like it
Everyday is sunday afternoon
Everyday is sunday afternoon
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I’m hanging on the corner with the local boys
Laughing and joking, making all this noise
Cracking open a beer, I bum a cigarette
I think I’d better warn you I’m taking all bets
On winter coming early, I can feel it in my bones
The fall has come and gone and left us out in the cold
Now the bookies are posting odds on us today
How many will make it ...
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I never thought I’d end up this way
No, no, no
I never thought I'd end up this way
Now I’m way down here inside my cardboard box
Oh what I wouldn’t give for just one pair of socks
That were not so holy that they brought me to my knees
Believe me I’m not praying, I’m begging you please
Send down another beer or one more cigarette
You call it charity I call it my last request
For a chance at happiness today
You gotta believe me ...
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It was never meant to be this way
No, no, no
It was never meant to be this way
Way down at the end of this abandoned street
That’s me walking ‘round with no shoes on my feet
Sometimes it feels like winter twelve months a year
When you’re so isolated nobody comes near
And far, far away in that black limousine
There’s a new world king and his society queen
I watch the lights change as they slowly pull away
And I’m thinking to myself ...
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I never thought I’d end up this way
No, no, no
I never thought I'd end up this way
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I’m in the money now he says
A million dollars on my head
I saw my picture yesterday
I’m really wanted so they say
I’ve never been this loved before
Mother always said I was no good
That I would never amount to much
Now look at me I’m on TV
Bet mother’s really proud of me
I’ve never been this loved before
(Bridge)
Never felt so good
Never been so loved
Now I’m wanted everywhere
Even on a “Current Affair”
They say I killed an innocent man
I’d like to shake that newsman’s hand
Cause everybody knows my name
I’ve got my fifteen minutes of fame
I’ve never been this loved before
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I’m standing on the corner looking up at your window
Cause I know what goes on when you turn the lights down that low
It was me not too long ago
I got my suitcase in my hand but I can’t bring myself to leave
You said its best for all involved but don’t you think I know what’s best for me
Oh baby can’t you see
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I don’t want to be just anybody’s hero
I don’t want to be just anybody’s fool
Now I’m standing in the station with a ticket that you bought me
Just a trial separation, you said, “Give it a month and then we’ll see”
But don’t you think I know what that means
Now the man on the PA calls the bus to Chicago
You said, “Seven hundred miles between us will surely let us know”
What I already know
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Now are you missing me as much as I am missing you
Do you call out my name when he does the things that I used to do
Oh, baby say you do
(Chorus)
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You wake up in the morning
Tear stains in your eyes
Struggling so desperately
With the child inside
Clouds on the horizon
There’s no-one by your side
Then the rain falls all around
And you realize
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Nowhere to go now
Ain’t no place to hide
Nowhere to go now
No-one by your side
Nowhere to go now
Just so alone
Shadows in the nighttime
They keep you company
When those memories come around
To haunt you once again
Time for resolution
Of the things that you can’t see
In a world where things aren’t always
What they seem to be
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(Bridge)
And you can’t walk away
And you can’t walk away
And you can’t walk away, walk away, walk away
Walk away from me
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The mill’s shut down three months they say
It may be more but anyway
We’re out of luck they’ll be no pay
Now…how about the eats
Vacations are all very nice
They add to life a little spice
But when you haven’t got the price
It’s … quite another tale
The family needs this and that
A pair of shoes, a shirt, a hat
We’ve not enough to feed a cat
And … how about the rent
But we’ll pull through somehow no doubt
No use our misery to spout
And should the landlord throw us out
We’ll … camp upon the street
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Welcome to the shutdown
Welcome to the shutdown
Welcome to the shutdown
Thank God the company’s alright
The dividend is safe and tight
The stockholder can sleep at night
Tho’ … we feel rather blue
God feeds the little bumble bees
The birds that flit among the trees
The flies, mosquitoes and the fleas
And we … well we can starve
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Now charity will do its part
Soup kitchens will be on the mart
And when the mills again do start
We’ll … have our load of debts
So they’ve shut down, they might as well
They’ve been curtailing quite a spell
It seems the country’s going to hell
Small loss … then we’ll go to
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As you crawl through this disease
Trying to solve the mysteries
But nobody knows, nobody cares
Nobody sees, nobody’s aware
(Chorus)
When the world outside changes from white to black
And it’s then you realize that there’s no turning back
You’re all alone in the city and that’s not where it’s at
You’re all alone in the city and that’s not where it’s at, no
And as you stare into their eyes
Trying to see through their disguise
But nobody talks, nobody feels
Nobody thinks, and nobody’s real
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You try to live your fantasy
But still you’re stuck in reality
And there’s nobody there, there’s nobody there
There’s nobody there, no there’s nobody there
(Chorus)
You’re all alone
You’re all alone
You’re all alone
You’re all alone
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Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you,
I wanna be your friend tonight
And don’t be alarmed by the things I say and do
And don’t be afraid, I won’t desert you
I’m gonna keep us warm tonight
And feel your charms like a river running through
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Cause when those lights go out and we’re left all alone in this world
I want to hold on to you girl
So don’t be afraid, I’m right here beside you
I’m gonna get us through this night
So just close you eyes and won’t you let me lead the way
And don’t be afraid, they’ll never hurt you
While I’m holding you so tight
And realize that there’s nothing more to say
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Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you,
I wanna be your friend tonight
And don’t be alarmed by the things I say and do
And don’t be afraid, I won’t desert you
I’m gonna keep us warm tonight
And feel your charms like a river running through
(Chorus)
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She says, There's something there, something that you can’t hide
There ain’t no sense in trying cause I can see it in your eyes"
She says, "I know what I want, and what I want I always find
And then I make it mine
All mine, all mine
She says, Just shut your mouth, I can see right through your lies
There ain’t no sense in hiding behind that worn out disguise
Cause I know what I want, and what I want I always find
And then I make it mine
All mine, all mine
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So just forget about that, that macho posturing
Cause you know it won’t get you anything
She says, There's something there, something that you can’t hide
And you know I’m going to get it, if it takes ‘til the day I die
Cause I know what I want, and what I want I always find
And then I make it mine
All mine, all mine
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