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It's been a year since i last saw mary
When she said goodbye
She casts a spell on my intention
That's the reason why
I'm taking my thought from a bottle lately
And breaking them up in my mind
All my problems they don't look pretty
Oh but it's no surprise

Well it's so hard
To take what you're given
Well it's so hard
To give what you've got

After the love goes
Here i go
There's no easy way

Bright lights of memphis
Sounds like a real good time
But i lost my heart and my money
Honed like cherry wine
But i don't remember the church bells ring
Thru the day or the night
But i kept my soul on my own
Not without a fight

Well it's so hard
To take what you're given
Well it's so hard
To give what you've got

After the love goes
Here i go
There's no easy way

It's been a while since i last saw mary
Wipe a tearful eye
Well i remember i first saw mary
Saying her last goodbye
Breaking it up from a bottle lately
And making it up in my mind
But all my problems, they don't look pretty
Ooh that's the bottom line

It's so hard
To take what you're given
Well it's so hard
To give what you've got

After the love goes
Here i go
There's no easy road

There's a place for just the two of us,
There's a love for us to share,
Something special just the two if us

Wishing on my star
That i don't spend a lifetime without you,
Without you

She's gonna make it alright,
And hold me inside,
She's all on my mind.

If i thought for just one second, girl,
You'd be seeing someone new,
And if i didn't know you better girl,

Wishing on my star
To heal this empty feeling,
Without you

She's gonna make it alright,
And hold me inside,
She's all on my mind.

Look in my eyes,
And take what you wanna,
Look in my heart,
There's a place for you,
Some other loving,
It doesn't make a bit of sense
You know i didn't mind when
You stole my heart...

She's gonna make it alright,
And hold me inside,
She's all on my mind.

She's gonna make it alright,
And hold me inside,
She's all on my mind.

Ten years before my time
I sang a song to a friend of mine
'bout a girl working for a dime

Although i didn't know that gypsy girl
But knew about her kind of thrill
Her love's not cheap but always up for sale

Picture this, i was alone
But when i sing this song
I'm not alone
With my gypsy girl

Gypsy lady lost her soul
She's so scared of growing old
But words don't age for me to turn to gold

Gypsy girl with raven hair
Eyes like saucers, with a stare
That says she's the one that never seems to care

Picture this, i was alone
But when i sing this song
I'm not alone
With my gypsy girl

Gypsy girl plays it fair
Throws her hand in the air
Saying that she didn't really care

If you're there and you care
And you listen very careful, darling
You'll hear my prayer

And if you hear, loud and clear
You would get a million kisses from me
Somewhere, somehow

And if the night's a lonely time for you
Just listen to the words i gave to you
Let the song of ours play one more time
Somewhere, somehow
I'll be there

Went out walkin' in the morning
Standing in the pouring rain
Let it run all over me

Stayed up late last night
Tryin' to put all the things right
Then your tears roll over me

And if the night's a lonely time for you
Just listen to the words i gave to you
Let the song of ours play one more time
Somewhere somehow
I'll be there

If you're there, and you care
You'll get a million kisses from me
Somewhere, somehow

And if you feel like i feel
Love cuts the deepest part of me
Somewhere, somehow

And if the night's a lonely time for you
Just listen to the words i gave to you
Let the song of ours play one more time
Somewhere, somehow
I'll be there

Here we go again, thru the backstreets of my mind
It seems my life was standing still
Who's sorry now, it's funny how i didn't know it

Here we go again, fighting things we never win
It seems our love was standing still i'm sorry now
It's funny how i don't feel the love
I just hear the words, julia says

She doesn't know what it's all about
She doesn't seem to care at all
Open your eyes and see
Love hurts

I won't be fooled again, looking for the dreams i couldn't find
The dreams for me were left behind
I'm sorry now, it's funny how
I don't feel the love
I just hear the words, julia says

She doesn't know what it's all about
She doesn't seem to care at all
Open your eyes and see, love hurts
Julia please, open your eyes and see

Julia wants to be on her own
Sharing her thoughts, she is all alone
Dreaming of the things she wants to be
Where julia don't belong

Julia said
She doesn't know what it's all about
She doesn't know, c'mon julia
She doesn't know, what it's all about
Julia... ... ...

I was sitting lonely in my car
Watching her come and go
I could feel the strings pulling my heart
From the old house,
That i used to know
Like the river that was flowing
She was coming without knowing
Our love's the river that somehow lost its flow,
Lost its flow

From my car i can see her there
As the curtain slowly moves
As he runs his fingers thru her hair
And the fire slowly grooves

What's the answer to this pain
I want to get back to her love again
And there she's sitting in that room
When she walked 'cross the street
Could she feel there's a heat
From my heart as it beats with her love
In her eyes other guys
See the fair that is there
But she might never know
But she might never know

I was sitting lonely in my house,
Wanting to tell her, wanting to call
And say i know i let you down,
Without thinking, his love might fall
No more hurting, no more clowning,
This emotion, isn't drowning,
If the river's gonna save our true love after all,
After all

I'm chewing on my nails again,
With my home across the street
I ain't got no place to turn to now
While you're cooking for that creep

What's the answer to this pain
I want to get back to her love again
There she's sitting in that room

When she walked 'cross the street
Could she feel there's a heat
From my heart as it beats with her love
In her eyes other guys, see the fair that is there
But she might never know
But she might never know

As i turned so she waved, this was all that she gave
So what was there to trade in love
Just the past that was cast, in the groove of the move
That she might never know
She might never know