Jackson Browne – The Late Show (Guitar)

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Everyone I've ever known has wished me well

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Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell

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Maybe people only ask you how you're doing

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'Cause that's easier than letting on how little they could care

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But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere

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Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear

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Now to see things clear it's hard enough I know

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While you're waiting for reality to show

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Without dreaming of the perfect love

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And holding it so far above

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That if you stumbled onto someone real, you'd never know

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(You'd never know)

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You could be with somebody who is lonely too

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(Sometimes it doesn't show)

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He might be trying to get across to you

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(Words can be so slow)

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When your own emptiness is all that's getting through

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There comes a point when you're not sure why you're still talking

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I passed that point long ago

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(Long ago)

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Now I'm so tired of all this circling

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And all these glimpses of the end

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(You know it's useless to pretend)

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That's all the voices say:

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"You'll go right on circling

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Until you've found some kind of friend"

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I saw you through the laughter and the noise

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You were talking with the soldiers and the boys

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While they scuffled for your weary smiles

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I thought of all the empty miles

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And the years that I've spent looking for your eyes

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(Looking for your eyes)

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And now I'm sitting here wondering what to say

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(That you might recognize)

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Afraid that all these words might scare you away

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(And break through the disguise)

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No one ever talks about their feelings anyway

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Without dressing them in dreams and laughter

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I guess it's just too painful otherwise

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It's like you're standing in the window

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Of a house nobody lives in

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And I'm sitting in a car across the way

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(Let's just say)

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It's an early model Chevrolet

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(Let's just say)

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It's a warm and windy day

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You go and pack your sorrow

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The trash man comes tomorrow

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Leave it at the curb and we'll just roll away