Everyone tells me
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I was dealt a losing hand
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The way that I look
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And the way that I act
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It's not hard to understand
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Sure I got troubles
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Maybe you got'em too
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I'd like to explain what has happened to me
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So it doesn't happen to you
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I was born in Los Angeles
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Many, many, many years ago
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We lived out in North Hollywood then
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In a steamy little bungalow
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My mother, my father
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My baby brother and me
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Playin' cowboys all day
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Out there in the valley
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What a perfect family
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Hey, hey
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Get 'em up, get 'em up
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Come a ti yi
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Hey
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Went off to high school
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When I was thirteen
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I was kind of advanced
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If you know what I mean
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Got into some trouble
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Drinkin' heavy with my friends in the hills
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My daddy had to come down to the station to get me
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He said, "Where is my angry young man?"
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Take me back
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Baby, please take me back
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I don't wanna live here by this dirty old airport
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In this greasy little shack
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Take me back
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Baby, please take me back
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Just give me a chance and we'll start all over again
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Now that young girl
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Was just a summertime thing
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She went back to school
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When the school bell ring
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Now I do my laundry by myself
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Every night I eat alone
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Baby please, please, please
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Won't you let me come back home
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Goin' off to college
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Passed every test
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They said, "Let's send this boy to Palo Alto
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He could be one of the best"
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Four years at Stanford
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Worked very hard
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A lot of good it did me, little tramp,
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Your're ruining my life
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Take me back
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Baby, please take me back
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I don't wanna live here by this dirty old airport
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In this greasy little shack
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Take me back
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Baby, please take me back
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Just give me a chance
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And we'll start all over again
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Just give me a chance
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And we'll start all over
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Take Me Back
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| Randy Newman |
