| I came to this world in a seaside town
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| Where the water could cool your broken body out
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| I learned you can rise over the cards in your hand
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| Mama was a woman and a hard-workin' man
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| Now, everyone I know had to make their own bed
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| Try to do as good as their fathers did for them
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| I never knew mine, so I bandaged the hurt
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| I pretended that my daddy was a bank robber
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| Oh, but you, you always said
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| «You're just too good a ship to wreck»
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| You said, «never mind nothin'
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| There’s a summertime hummin'
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| Once the bandages come off»
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| Yes, and you always believed
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| There was some kind of diamond in me
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| Oh, but if you still burn
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| Every night in the hurt
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| I know a place where the pain doesn’t reach
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| Come wander with me
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| Come wander with me
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| Now I tried to believe but it’s so hard to know
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| Gotta do right, Rudy, with the seeds that we’ve sown
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| But the voices are loud and the miles are long
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| And a hero’s a hard thing to find when you’re grown
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| Oh, but you, you always said
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| «You're just too good a ship to wreck»
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| You said, «never mind nothin'
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| There’s a summertime hummin'
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| Once the bandages come off»
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| Yes, and you always believed
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| There was some kind of diamond in me
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| Oh, but if you still burn
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| Every night in the hurt
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| I know a place where the pain doesn’t reach
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| Come wander with me
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| Come wander with me
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| Now, I hope the things that trouble me
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| They don’t catch you or press you on your knees
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| But I found out time and work don’t make you a man
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| Because time didn’t teach me anything
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| And the working only broke my hands
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| And when someday came I did not understand
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| U-understand, understand
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| Oh, but you, you always said
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| «You're just too good a ship to wreck»
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| You said, «never mind nothin'
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| There’s a summertime hummin'
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| Once the bandages come off»
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| Yes, and you always believed
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| There was some kind of diamond in me
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| Oh, but if you still burn
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| Every night in the hurt
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| I know a place where the pain doesn’t reach
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| Come wander with me (it's hard to sleep
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| I can bring you a dream
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| My baby, come wander with me)
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| Come wander with me (it's hard to sleep
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| I can bring you a dream
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| My baby, come wander with me)
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| Come wander with me (it's hard to sleep
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| I can bring you a dream
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| My baby, come wander with me)
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| Come wander with me (it's hard to sleep
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| I can bring you a dream
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| My baby, come wander with me)
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| Just past the door |