I know she said it's alright
But you can make it up next time
I know she knows it's not right
There ain't no use in lying
Maybe she thinks I know something
Maybe maybe she thinks its fine
Maybe she knows something I don't
I'm so, I'm so tired, I'm so tired of trying
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It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don't tell me you might just let it go
And often times we're lazy
It seems to stand in my way
Cause no one no not no one
Likes to be let down
I know she loves the sunrise
No longer sees it with her sleeping eyes
And I know that when she said she's gonna try
Well it might not work because of other ties and
I know she usually has some other ties
And I wouldn't want to break 'em, nah, I wouldn't want to break 'em
Maybe she'll help me to untie this but
Until then well, I'm gonna have to lie to you
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It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don't tell me you might just let it go
The harder that you try baby, the further you'll fall
Even with all your money in the whole wide world
Please please please don't pass me
Please please please don't pass me
Please please please don't pass me by
Everything you know about me now baby you gonna have to change
You goin to call it by a brand new name
Please please please don't drag me
Please please please don't drag me
Please please please don't drag me down
Just like your tree down by the water baby I shall not move
Even after all your silly things you do-oo
Please please please don't drag me
Please please please don't drag me
Please please please don't drag me down
Packing your bags like people in the movies do,
All severe, and not saying a word,
And I'm sitting down here just watching you,
And I'm thinking:
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Where is all the love gone?
Where's the love gone to?
Don't leave,
You got me hurting,
Don't leave
You know it's never been
easy to love someone like me,
Oh, don't leave.
Hanging with friends like we used to do,
I didn't know anything was wrong,
And last night while I was thinking it
through, Trying to find
who am I and
what do you need me to do? Don't leave.
There's a record you used to play,
there's Joannie singing 'best to be without you',
And I know just what
she's singing for,
Where did all the love go?
Where's the love gone to?
Don't leave.
We'll fly around the world,
give you what you're giving me,
I should have dressed you up in pearl,
Finest silk to touch your skin,
Don't know how to write a love song,
But Don't leave.
You got me hurting,
Don't leave.
You know it's never been
easy to love someone like me,
Don't leave.
Don't leave.
Don't leave.
Don't leave.
A billion people died on the news tonight
But not so many cried at the devil sight
Well mama said
It's just make believe
You can't believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
Who's the one to decide that it would be alright
To put the music behind the news tonight
Well mama said
You can't believe everything you hear
The diegetic world is so unclear
So baby close your ears
On the news tonight
On the news tonight
The unobtrusive tones on the news tonight
And mama said
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die
At least they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eyes
Mama said
It's just make believe
You cant believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
Well Jimmy played harmonica
In the pub where I was born
He played it from the night-time
To the peaceful early morn
He soothed souls of psychos
And the men who had the horn
And they all looked very happy in the morning
Now Jimmy didn't like his place
In this world of ours
Where the elephant man broke
Strong men's necks
When he'd had too many powers
So sad to see the grieving of
The people he was leaving
And he took the road from nowhere in the morning
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We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
Sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey
'Cause I'm going far away
I'd like to think I'll be returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally McLennane
The years passed by the times had changed
I grew to be a man
I learned to love the virtues of sweet Sally McLennane
I took the jeers and drank the beers
And I crawled back home at dawn
And ended up a barman
In the morning
I played the pump and took the hump
And watered whiskey down
I talked of whores and horses to
The men who drank the brown
I heard them say that Jimmy's
Making money far away
Some people left for heaven without warning
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When Jimmy came back home
He was surprised that they where gone
He asked me all the details of
The train that they went on
Some people they arescared to croak
But Jimmy drank until he choked
And took the road for heaven in the morning
Chorus
