When It Gets That Way lyrics
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Artist: Dar Williams Album: All My Heroes Are Dead
Lyrics
When I want to go somewhere, I don't ask forgiveness I just go where I like, and he knows that I walk alone into any party, I'm alone tonight In that high-heeled ego old hat Oh blue night, laughter at the bell toll People move like streaks of charcoal Someone found a prince in the punchbowl But high times fizzle out in a change of heart And we know things fall apart The morning's off to a bad start It's raining. have you had nights like this? I run miles to his place, wake him up to look at his face I feel astray, and I love it when it gets that way
The child is so young, they say that child is truly free And with a mind of perpetual invention So why is it now I'm a grown-up, all grown up And yet now I fly through the ceilings of convention? Oh new friend, borne out of a mind-cloud Make believe and yet I laugh aloud I've cried when you have stood ground But sometimes playtimes are a ghost I've faced In that room that I've erased The air is empty and druglaced I am completely gone. are you still with me, then? With my head so big and awfully Take my hand and lead me softly And then you stay, and I love it when it gets that way
And when I was crazy maybe I wanted, I wanted, I wanted to be steady as an iceberg And with nowhere fast a-going Now, now I can handle the danger zone with hailstones all a-flying And the crazy winds a-blowing These days I haven't been smoking my lungs brown Have that itch to turn my life around Maybe move on to a new town Cause good friends lifted me out of an early tomb. Pulled my life out from its doom Like sun into a big room And where my roots have grown I really can't let go Through the woods and through the fields climb Up the mountain into nighttime Into the day, and I love it when it gets that way
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