| We’ve been sitting at this table
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| For what seems a thousand years
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| You’ve been giving me your story
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| It’s ringin' in my ears
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| Yes I know that Iife is hard
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| And I know you’ve paid your dues
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| But I’m a stranger to the thought of simply
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| Livin' with the blues
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| Don’t bear down on me
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| I’m a woman, still got some time to go
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| Don’t bear down on me
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| I’m here to steal the show
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| All the loves that you have lost
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| And all them gains that fell apart
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| Every slap you felt across your face
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| You blew it from the start
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| I can’t live the life you do
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| Cause I’m tough and I am true
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| It don’t take too much intelligence
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| To figure a way through
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| Don’t bear down on me …
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| So every woman, every man
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| It ain’t that hard to understand
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| You can’t gratefully receive
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| If you’re no holding out your hand
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| When that rain is falling down
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| You just head for higher ground
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| Ain’t no hiding from the road beyond
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| Just shout your name out loud ! |