| I was raised in the ruins, mama, 'till I was thirteen
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| Every day I heard the radio
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| Every night I had the same old dream
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| To sing a song, oh, baby, to watch my name in lights
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| If you wanna see your dream come true
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| Honeychild, you gotta get right down and fight
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| Well I sailed cross the ocean, girl, I felt so all alone
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| Many times I thought about goin' right back home
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| But the Joy I found in song gave me the will to carry on Live your life the way you want to Don’t let fools lead you astray
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| Live you dreams so you hold on to All you need along the way
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| I was payin' my dues right here in the land of the free
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| All the time I learned to sing along
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| I could not speak and I could barely see
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| Still all the while I knew where I was at But the people that believed in me Lord, I could count them all in seconds flat
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| Well, someday I would be, I knew it all along
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| A gentleman of leisure, girl, right or wrong
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| And though my dream has come and gone
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| There’s plenty more where those came from
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