{"id":5307,"date":"2019-02-23T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T20:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2019-02-23T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T21:11:07","slug":"lyrics-i-often-return-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=5307","title":{"rendered":"often return to these"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Love is a rose but you better not pick it<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It only grows when it’s on the vine.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A handful of thorns and you’ll know you’ve missed it<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You lose your love when you say the word “mine”.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Settle down into the clickety clack<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With the clouds and the stars to read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dreaming of the pleasure I’m going to have<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Watching your hairline recede [My vain darling]<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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To buy a pair of mod-a-go-go stretch elastic pants?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There will come a time when you can even <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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take your clothes off when you dance<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You raise up your head and you ask, “Is this where it is?”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And somebody points to you and says, “It’s his”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And you say, “What’s mine?” and somebody else says, “Well, what is?”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And you say, “Oh my God, am I here all alone?”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He’s just a hero in a long line of heroes<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Looking for something attractive to save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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They say he rode in on the back of a pickup<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And he won’t leave town ’til you remember his name<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A rat done bit my sister Nell.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(with Whitey on the moon)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Her face and arms began to swell.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(and Whitey’s on the moon)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I can’t pay no doctor bill.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(but Whitey’s on the moon)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(while Whitey’s on the moon)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I looked at every fiesta<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For you I wanted to greet<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Maybe I’d sell you a chicken<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With poison interlaced with the meat<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Intimacy and affection, frozen <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In this game of chance, I forfeit <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Full hand of love with no counters <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Like a moth with no flame, to persuade me <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Like blood in the rain running thin <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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While you stand on the inside looking in<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Michael Jackson in Disneyland<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Don’t have to share it with nobody else<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And lead me through the World of Self<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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