| Shadow face. |
| A little boy out on the stage.
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| Oh his daddy sings and plays 'em another song.
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| Shadow face. |
| Now his daddy’s gone away,
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| And his mother says, son you must carry on.
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| Shadow face, you’re much too young to take his place.
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| You’ll be walkin' in his shadow for so long, for so long.
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| Shadow face, Oh they say you’re of his (grace)?,
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| With your hair and beard and singin' strange new songs.
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| Shadow face, son you and your friends better slow down the pace,
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| Or you’re gonna burn yourselves out before long.
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| Who ever told you, what you could and could not do.
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| Oh you get so tired of bein' told you’re wrong,
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| But some of my friends are gone.
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| Better days, hear your songs on the hit parade,
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| Now they tell you we were behind you all the way. |
| Yeah.
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| Shadow face, boy don’t you let it all go to waste,
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| You’ve seen so many fall who thought they had it made.
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| Shadow face, you’re much happier these days,
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| Does a smile really look so out of place,
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| Here on shadow face, right here on shadow face. |