If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember
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If you think I'm feeling older and missing my younger days
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Oh oh, then you should have known me much better
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Cause my past is something that never got in my way, oh no
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Still I would not be here now if I never had the hunger
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And I'm not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends
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Oh oh, 'Cause I never felt the desire 'til their music set me on fire
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And then I was saved, yeah, that's why I'm keeping the faith
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, keeping the faith
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We wore matador boots
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Only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel
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Iridescent socks with the same color shirt and a tight pair of chinos
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Oh, I put on my shark skin jacket
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You know the kind with the velvet collar and ditty-bop shades, oh yeah
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies and a mint called Sen-Sen
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My old man's Trojans and his Old Spice after shave
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I combed my hair in a pompadour
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Like the rest of the Romeos wore a permanent wave, oh yeah
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We was keeping the faith (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
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You can get just so much from a good thing
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You can linger too long in your dreams
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Say goodbye to the "Oldies But Goodies"
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¡®Cause the good ole days weren't always good
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Tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems
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Learned stickball as a formal education
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Lost a lot of fights but it taught me how to lose O.K.
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Oh oh, I heard about sex but not enough
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I found you could dance and still look tough anyway, oh yes I did
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I found out a man ain't just being macho
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Ate an awful lotta late night drive-in food, I drank a lotta take-home pay
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Oh I thought I was the Duke of Earl
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When I made it with a red-haired girl in the Chevrolet, oh yeah
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We was keeping the faith (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
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You know the good ole days weren't always good
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And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems
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Now I told you my reasons for the whole revival
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Now I'm going outside to have an ice cold beer in the shade
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Oh, I'm going to listen to my 45's
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Ain't it wonderful to be alive when the rock 'n' roll plays, yeah
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When the memory stays, oh yeah
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I'm keeping the faith (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
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I'm keeping the faith, oh yes I am
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I¡¯m keeping the faith, oh yeah, I¡¯m keeping the faith, oh yeah
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I¡¯m keeping the faith, oh yeah
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I¡¯m keeping the faith, faith, I gotta have-a faith, faith, faith
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(Mark Rivera on the saxophone.)
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Keeping The Faith (12 Gardens Live)
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Billy Joel |