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Is this a place I can rest my poor head
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To gather my thoughts in sweet silence
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Is this a place where the feelings aren't dead
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From an overexposure to violence
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And is this a place I can slowly face
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The only one I truly can know
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These are tears from a long time ago
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I got these tears from a long time ago
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I need to cry 30 years or so
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These are tears from a long time ago
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Oh Darling, oh darling, say unto me
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Where have you been all my lifetime
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Well I have been swimmin' the seven sad seas
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Fair women have thrown me their lifelines
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And I just pulled them on to the water's dark grin
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I'd have warned 'em but I didn't know
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These are tears from a long time ago
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I've got these tears from a long time ago
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I need to cry 30 years or so
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These are tears from a long time ago
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Well, I've cried me a river, I've cried me a lake
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I've cried till the past nearly drowned me
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Tears for sad consequences
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Tears for mistakes
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But never these tears that surround me
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Alone in this place with a lifetime to trace
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And a heartbeat that tells me it's so
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I've got these tears from a long time ago
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These are tears from a long time ago
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And I need to cry 30 years or so
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These are tears from a long time ago
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These are tears from a long time ago
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I've got these tears from a long time ago
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Thirty Years Of Tears
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| John Hiatt |
