| I left my home in the wide north country
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| turned my back on the nine to five
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| I said goodbye to child horizons
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| I must have made enough to stay alive
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| You and I were friends from way back
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| just drinking cognac through the dawn
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| putting right the wrongs in the laughter and the songs
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| that said all we knew, all we believed in
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| And you know it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya
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| took a long time, took a long time in the end
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| took a long time, took a long time just to know ya
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| to know my friend
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| now broken rocks don’t make no highway
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| and fallen stars don’t mend the sky
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| she is lying here beside me
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| don’t ever really have to ask a reason why
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| and you and I we should not worry
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| for all things they say will find a way
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| who knows where it ends where the road winds where it bends
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| God knows, it might roll on forever
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| and you know it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya
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| took a long time, took a long time in the end
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| took a long time, took a long time just to know ya
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| to know my friend.
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| It took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya
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| took a long time, took a long time in the end
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| took a long time, took a long time just to know ya
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| to know my friend.
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| and it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya
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| took a long time, took a long time in the end
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| took a long time, took a long time just to know ya |