Melissa Etheridge – My Back Door (Guitar)

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When I was a child I dreamed like a child of wonder

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with my back to the grass, my eyes to the sky to see

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I believed in the stars, I knew they cast a spell that I was under

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With my fingers in the dirt, I was part of the earth

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Every living thing was part of me

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But it's gone

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It's gone

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It's gone

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it's gone gone

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I can't feel it,  I can't feel it

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Must have gone away out my back door

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Must have gone away out my back door

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because it's gone gone gone

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Then I fell in love, love gave me a shot of pure desire

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There was nothing else like this, this unimagined bliss, this ecstasy

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Deep inside the night, I believed I saw the light ignite a fire

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And it burned into the dark, it burned deep inside my heart,

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I thought it would burn eternally

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But it's gone

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It's gone

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It's gone

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it's gone gone

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I can't feel it,  I can't feel it

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Must have gone away out my back door

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Must have gone away out my back door

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because it's gone gone gone

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        So I run into the street

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And I'm shouting into the phone asking everyone I meet

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I say "Have you seen it on my doorstep did you see it in my car?

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Have you seen it in the alley? Was it on the back of some guitar?

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Is it sleeping in the hallway? Does it cry all night alone?

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Is it selling itself for money?

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Does it want, does it want to come home?

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Then I saw the world, wounded deep and curled up on my sidewalk

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With the mouths all white and pale, telling all their tales reality

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So I picked up a sign, and I found a place in line and I shouted no talk

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The men all painted proud, their words empty and loud

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Are trying hard to sell my dream

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They tell me it's gone,

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they say it's gone

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They say it's,

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it's gone

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Oh, but I can feel it, oh, I wanna feel it

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I can't let it run away out my back door

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I can't let it run away out my back door

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Lord, if I look out there, if I look out there, every da-a- ay

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I can't let it run away, I can't let it run away,

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Oh if I look out there, every da-a-y!